Perfect edge domination and efficient edge domination in graphs
Let G=(V,E) be a finite and undirected graph without loops and multiple edges. An edge is said to dominate itself and any edge adjacent to it. A subset D of E is called a perfect edge dominating set if every edge of E?D is dominated by exactly one edge in D and an efficient edge dominating set if every edge of E is dominated by exactly one edge in D. The perfect (efficient) edge domination problem is to find a perfect (efficient) edge dominating set of minimum size in G. Suppose that each edge e is associated with a real number w(e) as its weight. Then, the weighted perfect (efficient) edge domination problem is to calculate a perfect (efficient) edge dominating set D such that the weight w(D) of D is minimum, where w(D)=?e?Dw(e). In this paper, we show that the perfect (efficient) edge domination problem is NP-complete on bipartite (planar bipartite) graphs. Moreover, we present linear-time algorithms to solve the weighted perfect (efficient) edge domination problem on generalized seriesparallel graphs and chordal graphs.
perfect edge domination efficient edge domination algorithms generalized seriesparallel graphs chordal graphs planar bipartite graphs