Balanced Domination in Convex Polytopes, Trees, and Grid Graphs

Abstract: This paper addresses two open questions posed in [27] regarding the balanced domination number in graphs. We show that three new classes of graphs, those of convex polytopes A_n, D_n, and Rn'', are d-balanced. Further, we provide a characterization of d-balancedness for rooted trees with two levels of descendants and prove that each full binary tree is d-balanced. Several results for caterpillar graphs are established. Moreover, we determine and prove the exact balanced domination number for grid graphs. Finally, we conclude by providing several open problems of interest.