# Upper Domination: Towards a Dichotomy Through Boundary Properties

AbouEisha, Hassan, Hussain, Shahid, Lozin, Vadim, Monnot, Jerome, Ries, Bernard and Zamaraev, Viktor ORCID: 0000-0001-5755-4141
(2018) Upper Domination: Towards a Dichotomy Through Boundary Properties. ALGORITHMICA, 80 (10). 2799 - 2817.

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## Abstract

An upper dominating set in a graph is a minimal dominating set of maximum cardinality. The problem of finding an upper dominating set is generally NP-hard. We study the complexity of this problem in finitely defined classes of graphs and conjecture that the problem admits a complexity dichotomy in this family. A helpful tool to study the complexity of an algorithmic problem is the notion of boundary classes. However, none of such classes has been identified so far for the upper dominating set problem. We discover the first boundary class for this problem and prove the dichotomy for monogenic classes.

Item Type: Article Upper dominating set, Boundary class, Complexity dichotomy, NP-hard Symplectic Admin 29 Oct 2019 09:49 01 May 2021 07:10 10.1007/s00453-017-0346-9 https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3059778