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On the Largest Dynamic Monopolies of Graphs with a Given Average Threshold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kaveh Khoshkhah
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran. e-mail: khoshkhah@iasbs.ac.ir, e-mail: mzaker@iasbs.ac.ir
Manouchehr Zaker
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran. e-mail: khoshkhah@iasbs.ac.ir, e-mail: mzaker@iasbs.ac.ir
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Let $G$ be a graph and let $\tau $ be an assignment of nonnegative integer thresholds to the vertices of $G$. A subset of vertices, $D$, is said to be a $\tau $-dynamicmonopoly if $V\left( G \right)$ can be partitioned into subsets ${{D}_{0}},\,{{D}_{1}},\,\ldots \,,\,{{D}_{k}}$ such that ${{D}_{0}}\,=\,D$ and for any $i\,\in \,\left\{ 0,\,\ldots \,,\,k-1 \right\}$, each vertex $v$ in ${{D}_{i+1}}$ has at least $\tau \left( v \right)$ neighbors in ${{D}_{0}}\cup \cdots \cup {{D}_{i}}$. Denote the size of smallest $\tau $-dynamic monopoly by $\text{dy}{{\text{n}}_{\tau }}\left( G \right)$ and the average of thresholds in $\tau $ by $\bar{\tau }$. We show that the values of $\text{dy}{{\text{n}}_{\tau }}\left( G \right)$ over all assignments $\tau $ with the same average threshold is a continuous set of integers. For any positive number $t$, denote the maximum $\text{dy}{{\text{n}}_{\tau }}\left( G \right)$ taken over all threshold assignments $\tau $ with $\bar{\tau }\,\le \,t$, by $\text{Ldy}{{\text{n}}_{t}}\left( G \right)$. In fact, $\text{Ldy}{{\text{n}}_{t}}\left( G \right)$ shows the worst-case value of a dynamicmonopoly when the average threshold is a given number $t$. We investigate under what conditions on $t$, there exists an upper bound for $\text{Ldy}{{\text{n}}_{t}}\left( G \right)$ of the form $c\left| G \right|$, where $c\,<\,1$. Next, we show that $\text{Ldy}{{\text{n}}_{t}}\left( G \right)$ is $\text{coNP}$-hard for planar graphs but has polynomial-time solution for forests.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2015

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