On Independent Domination in Planar Cubic Graphs

Abstract

A set S of vertices in a graph G is an independent dominating set of G if S is an independent set and every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S. The independent domination number, i(G), of G is the minimum cardinality of an independent dominating set. Goddard and Henning [Discrete Math. 313 (2013) 839–854] posed the conjecture that if G ∉ {K3,3, C5 □ K2} is a connected, cubic graph on n vertices, then i(G)≤38n$i\left( G \right) \le {3 \over 8}n$, where C5 □ K2 is the 5-prism. As an application of known result, we observe that this conjecture is true when G is 2-connected and planar, and we provide an infinite family of such graphs that achieve the bound. We conjecture that if G is a bipartite, planar, cubic graph of order n, then i(G)≤13n$i\left( G \right) \le {1 \over 3}n$, and we provide an infinite family of such graphs that achieve this bound.

Keywords

• independent domination number
• domination number
• cubic graphs
• 05c69
• 05c10