Roman domination on strongly chordal graphs

Abstract

Given real numbers b≥a>0, an (a,b)-Roman dominating function of a graph G=(V,E) is a function f:V→{0,a,b} such that every vertex v with f(v)=0 has a neighbor u with f(u)=b. An independent/connected/total (a,b)-Roman dominating function is an (a,b)-Roman dominating function f such that {v∈V:f(v)≠0} induces a subgraph without edges/that is connected/without isolated vertices. For a weight function $w{:} V\to\Bbb{R}$, the weight of f is w(f)=∑ _v∈V w(v)f(v). The weighted (a,b)-Roman domination number $\gamma^{(a,b)}_{R}(G,w)$ is the minimum weight of an (a,b)-Roman dominating function of G. Similarly, we can define the weighted independent (a,b)-Roman domination number $\gamma^{(a,b)}_{Ri}(G,w)$. In this paper, we first prove that for any fixed (a,b) the (a,b)-Roman domination and the total/connected/independent (a,b)-Roman domination problems are NP-complete for bipartite graphs. We also show that for any fixed (a,b) the (a,b)-Roman domination and the total/connected/weighted independent (a,b)-Roman domination problems are NP-complete for chordal graphs. We then give linear-time algorithms for the weighted (a,b)-Roman domination problem with b≥a>0, and the weighted independent (a,b)-Roman domination problem with 2a≥b≥a>0 on strongly chordal graphs with a strong elimination ordering provided.