DOMINATION IN GRAPHS WITH MINIMUM DEGREE SIX

A set D of vertices of a graph G = (V(G),E(G)) is called a dominating set if every vertex of V(G) - D is adjacent to at least one element of D. The domination number of G, denoted by ${\gamma}(G)$, is the size of its smallest dominating set. Haynes et al.[5] present a conjecture: For any graph G with ${\delta}(G){\geq}k$,$\gamma(G){\leq}\frac{k}{3k-1}n$. When $k\;{\neq}\;6$, the conjecture was proved in [7], [8], [10], [12] and [13] respectively. In this paper we prove that every graph G on n vertices with ${\delta}(G)\;{\geq}\;6$ has a dominating set of order at most $\frac{6}{17}n$. Thus the conjecture was completely proved.