TY - JOUR ID - Mojdeh2009 LB - Mojdeh2009 AU - Mojdeh, Doost Ali AU - Mirzamani, Somayeh TI - On the diameter of dot-critical graphs ST - On the diameter of dot-critical graphs JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2009 VL - 29 IS - 2 SP - 165 EP - 175 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2009.29.2.165 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2009.29.2.165 AB - A graph G is \(k\)-dot-critical (totaly \(k\)-dot-critical) if \(G\) is dot-critical (totaly dot-critical) and the domination number is \(k\). In the paper [T. Burtona, D. P. Sumner, Domination dot-critical graphs, Discrete Math, 306 (2006), 11-18] the following question is posed: What are the best bounds for the diameter of a \(k\)-dot-critical graph and a totally \(k\)-dot-critical graph \(G\) with no critical vertices for \(k \geq 4\)? We find the best bound for the diameter of a \(k\)-dot-critical graph, where \(k \in\{4,5,6\}\) and we give a family of \(k\)-dot-critical graphs (with no critical vertices) with sharp diameter \(2k-3\) for even \(k \geq 4\). KW - dot-critical graph KW - diameter SN - 1232-9274 ER -