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James Gossell

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arXiv2026

Characterization of Well-Totally Dominated Trees

Let $G$ be a graph with no isolated vertices. A set of vertices $S$ is a total dominating set (TDS) if every vertex in $G$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $S$. We say $G$ is well-totally dominated (WTD) if every minimal TDS has the same size. In this paper, we present two characterizations of well-totally dominated trees, one being descriptive and the other being constructive. In particular, our characterizations imply that it takes only polynomial time to verify whether a given tree is WTD.

math.CO↗

arXiv2025

Open Neighborhood Ideals of Well-Totally Dominated Trees are Cohen-Macaulay

We introduce and investigate the open neighborhood ideal $\mathcal{N}(G)$ of a finite simple graph $G$. We describe the minimal primary decomposition of $\mathcal{N}(G)$ in terms of the minimal total dominating sets (TDSs) of $G$. Then we prove that the open neighborhood ideal of a tree is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if the tree is well-totally dominated (WTD) and calculate the Cohen-Macaulay type.

math.AC↗