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Abstract
In this short note, we prove that every twin-free graph on n vertices contains a locating-dominating set of size at most . This improves the earlier bound of due to Foucaud, Henning, Löwenstein and Sasse from 2016, and makes some progress towards the well-studied locating-dominating conjecture of Garijo, González and Márquez.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
Items in the journal include research articles (Contributions or Notes, depending on length) and survey/expository articles (Perspectives). Efforts are made to process the submission of Notes (short articles) quickly. The Perspectives section features expository articles accessible to a broad audience that cast new light or present unifying points of view on well-known or insufficiently-known topics.