A note on the independent Roman domination in unicyclic graphs

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph G= (V, E) is a function ƒ : V → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which ƒ(u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which ƒ(v)=2. The weight of an RDF is the value [formula]. An RDF ƒ in a graph G is independent if no two vertices assigned positive values are adjacent. The Roman domination number ΥR (G) (respectively, the independent Roman domination number ΥR(G) is the minimum weight of an RDF (respectively, independent RDF) on G. We say that ΥR(G) strongly equals iR(G), denoted by ΥR(G) ≡ iR(G), if every RDF on G of minimum weight is independent. In this note we characterize all unicyclic graphs G with ΥR(G) ≡ iR(G).