TCS Journal 2024 Journal Article
On the complexity of Dominating Set for graphs with fixed diameter
- Valentin Bouquet
- François Delbot
- Christophe Picouleau
- Stéphane Rovedakis
A set S ⊆ V of a graph G = ( V, E ) is a dominating set if each vertex has a neighbor in S or belongs to S. Dominating Set is the problem of deciding, given a graph G and an integer k ≥ 1, if G has a dominating set of size at most k. It is well known that this problem is NP -complete even for claw-free graphs. We give a (almost) complexity dichotomy for Dominating Set for the class of claw-free graphs with diameter d. We show that the problem is NP -complete for every fixed d ≥ 3 and polynomial-time solvable for d ≤ 2. To prove the case d = 2, we show that Minimum Maximal Matching can be solved in polynomial-time for 2 K 2 -free graphs.