Hereditary Equality of Domination and Exponential Domination in Subcubic Graphs

Let γ(G) and γ_e(G) denote the domination number and exponential domination number of graph G, respectively. Henning et al., in [Hereditary equality of domination and exponential domination, Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 38 (2018) 275–285] gave a conjecture: There is a finite set ℱ of graphs such that a graph G satisfies (H) = γ_e(H) for every induced subgraph H of G if and only if G is ℱ-free. In this paper, we study the conjecture for subcubic graphs. We characterize the class ℱ by minimal forbidden induced subgraphs and prove that the conjecture holds for subcubic graphs.