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20242026
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7 papers

math.CO2026

A Two-Player Zero Forcing Game

Dickson Y. B. Annor, Ben Howerton

We introduce a competitive two-player zero forcing game on a connected graph. Alice and Bob alternately seed white vertices or perform legal zero forces in their own colours, and e…

math.CO2026

Induced Subgraph Bounds on the Zero Forcing Number and Chromatic Consequences

Dickson Y. B. Annor, Ben Howerton

Let be a graph with chromatic number , clique number and zero forcing number . We establish new lower bounds on in terms of induced triangle-free subg…

math.CO2026

A Note on Inequalities for Three Domination Parameters

Dickson Y. B. Annor

In this short paper, we establish relations between the domination number , the total domination number , and the connected domination number of a graph. In partic…

math.CO2025

Domination Parameters of Graph Covers

Dickson Y. B. Annor

A graph is a \emph{cover} of a graph if there exists an onto mapping , called a (\emph{covering}) \emph{projection}, such that maps the neighbours o…

math.CO2024

Three Theorems on Negami's Planar Cover Conjecture

Dickson Annor, Yuri Nikolayevsky, Michael Payne

A long-standing Conjecture of S. Negami states that a connected graph has a finite planar cover if and only if it embeds in the projective plane. It is known that the Conjecture is…

math.CO2024

has no -fold planar cover graph for

Dickson Y. B. Annor, Yuri Nikolayevsky, Michael S. Payne

S. Negami conjectured in that a connected graph has a finite planar cover if and only if it embeds in the projective plane. It follows from the works of D. Archdeacon, M. Fe…