%0 Journal Article %T DOUBLE DOMINATION NUMBER AND CONNECTIVITY OF GRAPHS %A C. Sivagnanam %J International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications %D 2012 %I Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications %X In a graph G, a vertex dominates itself and its neighbours. A subset S of V is called a dominating set in G if every vertex in V is dominated by at least one vertex in S. The domination number is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set. A set is called a double dominating set of a graph G if every vertex in V is dominated by at least two vertices in S. The minimum cardinality of a double dominating set is called double domination number of G and is denoted by dd(G). The connectivity of a connected graph G is the minimum number of vertices whose removal results in a disconnected or trivial graph. In this paper we find an upper bound for the sum of the double domination number and connectivity of a graph and characterize the corresponding extremal graphs. %K Domination %K Domination number %K Double domination %K double domination number and Connectivity. %U http://sdiwc.net/digital-library/web-admin/upload-pdf/00000269.pdf