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The minimum cardinality of a power dominating set of a graph G is the power domination number of G, denoted by \(\gamma _P(G)\). We prove a conjecture on power domination posed by Benson et al. (Discrete Appl Math 251:103–113, 2018), which states that if G is a graph on n vertices such that every component of G and its complement \({\overline{G}}\) have at least three vertices, then \(\gamma _P(G)+\gamma _P({\overline{G}})\le \lfloor \frac{n}{3}\rfloor +2\). Also, we show that if G is a graph on n vertices such that both G and \({\overline{G}}\) are connected, then \(\gamma _P(G)+\gamma _P({\overline{G}})\le \lceil \frac{n}{3}\rceil +1\). This result improves a previous result due to Bensen et al.
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This research was partially supported by the NSFC of China (Grant numbers 11971298, 11871329) and the ZJNSF of China (Grant number LQ14A010014).
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Zhao, M., Shan, E. & Kang, L. On a Conjecture for Power Domination. Graphs and Combinatorics 37, 1215–1228 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-021-02307-8
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