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A set S of vertices in a graph G is a dominating set if every vertex not in S is adjacent to a vertex in S. If, in addition, S is an independent set, then S is an independent dominating set. The independent domination number i(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of an independent dominating set in G. In Goddard and Henning (Discrete Math 313:839–854, 2013) conjectured that if G is a connected cubic graph of order n, then \(i(G) \le \frac{3}{8}n\), except if G is the complete bipartite graph \(K_{3,3}\) or the 5-prism \(C_5 \, \Box \, K_2\). Further they construct two infinite families of connected cubic graphs with independent domination three-eighths their order. In this paper, we provide a new family of connected cubic graphs G of order n such that \(i(G) = \frac{3}{8}n\). We also show that if G is a subcubic graph of order n with no isolated vertex, then \(i(G) \le \frac{1}{2}n\), and we characterize the graphs achieving equality in this bound.
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The research of the second author was supported by grant number (G981202) from the Sharif University of Technology.
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Akbari, A., Akbari, S., Doosthosseini, A. et al. Independent domination in subcubic graphs. J Comb Optim 43, 28–41 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-021-00743-z
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