New bounds on the rainbow domination subdivision number

Abstract

A 2-rainbow dominating function (2RDF) of a graph G is a function f from the vertex set V(G) to the set of all subsets of the set {1,2} such that for any vertex v ? V(G) with f (v) = ? the condition Uu?N(v) f(u)= {1,2} is fulfilled, where N(v) is the open neighborhood of v. The weight of a 2RDF f is the value ?(f) = ?v?V |f(v)|. The 2-rainbow domination number of a graph G, denoted by r2(G), is the minimum weight of a 2RDF of G. The 2-rainbow domination subdivision number sd?r2(G) is the minimum number of edges that must be subdivided (each edge in G can be subdivided at most once) in order to increase the 2-rainbow domination number. In this paper we prove that for every simple connected graph G of order n ? 3, sd?r2(G)? 3 + min{d2(v)|v?V and d(v)?2} where d2(v) is the number of vertices of G at distance 2 from v.