Algorithmic Complexity of Isolate Secure Domination in Graphs

Abstract

A dominating set $S$ is an Isolate Dominating Set (IDS) if the induced subgraph $G[S]$ has at least one isolated vertex. In this paper, we initiate the study of new domination parameter called, isolate secure domination. An isolate dominating set $S\subseteq V$ is an isolate secure dominating set (ISDS), if for each vertex $u \in V \setminus S$, there exists a neighboring vertex $v$ of $u$ in $S$ such that $(S \setminus \{v\}) \cup \{u\}$ is an IDS of $G$. The minimum cardinality of an ISDS of $G$ is called as an isolate secure domination number, and is denoted by $\gamma_{0s}(G)$. Given a graph $ G=(V,E)$ and a positive integer $ k,$ the ISDM problem is to check whether $ G $ has an isolate secure dominating set of size at most $ k.$ We prove that ISDM is NP-complete even when restricted to bipartite graphs and split graphs. We also show that ISDM can be solved in linear time for graphs of bounded tree-width.