Below All Subsets for Minimal Connected Dominating Set
Daniel Lokshtanov, Michał Pilipczuk, Saket Saurabh · SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics · 2018
A vertex subset $S$ in a graph $G$ is a dominating set if every vertex not contained in $S$ has a neighbor in $S$. A dominating set $S$ is a connected dominating set if the subgraph $G[S]$ induced by $S$ is connected. A connected dominating set $S$ is a minimal connected dominating set if no proper subset of $S$ is also a connected dominating set. We prove that there exists a constant $\epsilon > 10^{-50}$ such that every graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has at most $\mathcal{O}(2^{(1-\epsilon)n})$ minimal connected dominating sets. For the same $\epsilon$ we also give an algorithm with running time $2^{(1-\epsilon)n}\cdot n^{\mathcal{O}(1)}$ to enumerate all minimal connected dominating sets in an input graph $G$.