2-limited broadcast domination on grid graphs

dc.contributor.authorSlobodin, Aaron
dc.contributor.supervisorMacGillivray, Gary
dc.contributor.supervisorRuskey, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-29T20:45:38Z
dc.date.available2021-07-29T20:45:38Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021-07-29
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractSuppose there is a transmitter located at each vertex of a graph G. A k-limited broadcast on G is an assignment of the integers 0,1,...,k to the vertices of G. The integer assigned to the vertex x represents the strength of the broadcast from x, where strength 0 means the transmitter at x is not broadcasting. A broadcast of positive strength s from x is heard by all vertices at distance at most s from x. A k-limited broadcast is called dominating if every vertex assigned 0 is within distance d of a vertex whose transmitter is broadcasting with strength at least d. The k-limited broadcast domination number of G is the minimum possible value of the sum of the strengths of the broadcasts in a k-limited dominating broadcast of G. We establish upper and lower bounds for the 2-limited broadcast domination number of various grid graphs, in particular the Cartesian products of two paths, a path and a cycle, and two cycles. The upper bounds are derived by explicit broadcast constructions for these graphs. The lower bounds are obtained via linear programming duality by finding lower bounds for the fractional 2-limited multipacking number of these graphs. Finally, we present an algorithm to improve the lower bound for the 2-limited broadcast domination number of special sub-families of grids. We conclude this thesis with suggested open problems in broadcast domination and multipackings.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13190
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectgraph theoryen_US
dc.subjectbroadcast dominationen_US
dc.subjectk-limited broadcast dominationen_US
dc.subjectmultipackingen_US
dc.subjectfractional 2-limited multipackingen_US
dc.subjectoptimizationen_US
dc.subjectdiscrete mathen_US
dc.subjectlimited broadcast dominationen_US
dc.subjectlimited multipackingen_US
dc.subjectlinear programmingen_US
dc.title2-limited broadcast domination on grid graphsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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