ON THE ROMAN BONDAGE NUMBER OF A GRAPH

Abstract

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph G = (V, E) is a function f : V → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex v ∈ V with f(v) = 0 has at least one neighbor u ∈ V with f(u) = 2. The weight of a RDF is the value f(V(G)) = Σu∈V(G) f(u). The minimum weight of a RDF on a graph G is called the Roman domination number, denoted by γR(G). The Roman bondage number bR(G) of a graph G with maximum degree at least two is the minimum cardinality of all sets E′ ⊆ E(G) for which γR(G - E′) > γR(G). In this paper, we first show that the decision problem for determining bR(G) is NP-hard even for bipartite graphs and then we establish some sharp bounds for bR(G) and characterizes all graphs attaining some of these bounds.