TY - JOUR ID - Bouchou2013 LB - Bouchou2013 AU - Bouchou, Ahmed AU - Blidia, Mostafa AU - Chellali, Mustapha TI - A note on k-Roman graphs ST - A note on k-Roman graphs JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2013 VL - 33 IS - 4 SP - 641 EP - 646 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2013.33.4.641 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2013.33.4.641 AB - Let \(G=\left(V,E\right)\) be a graph and let \(k\) be a positive integer. A subset \(D\) of \(V\left( G\right) \) is a \(k\)-dominating set of \(G\) if every vertex in \(V\left( G\right) \backslash D\) has at least \(k\) neighbours in \(D\). The \(k\)-domination number \(\gamma_{k}(G)\) is the minimum cardinality of a \(k\)-dominating set of \(G.\) A Roman \(k\)-dominating function on \(G\) is a function \(f\colon V(G)\longrightarrow\{0,1,2\}\) such that every vertex \(u\) for which \(f(u)=0\) is adjacent to at least \(k\) vertices \(v_{1},v_{2},\ldots ,v_{k}\) with \(f(v_{i})=2\) for \(i=1,2,\ldots ,k.\) The weight of a Roman \(k\)-dominating function is the value \(f(V(G))=\sum_{u\in V(G)}f(u)\) and the minimum weight of a Roman \(k\)-dominating function on \(G\) is called the Roman \(k\)-domination number \(\gamma_{kR}\left( G\right)\) of \(G\). A graph \(G\) is said to be a \(k\)-Roman graph if \(\gamma_{kR}(G)=2\gamma_{k}(G).\) In this note we study \(k\)-Roman graphs. KW - Roman \(k\)-domination KW - \(k\)-Roman graph SN - 1232-9274 ER -