A decidability result for the dominating set problem

We study the following question: given a finite collection of graphs G"1,...,G"k, is the dominating set problem polynomial-time solvable in the class of (G"1,...,G"k)-free graphs? In this paper, we prove the existence of an efficient algorithm that answers this question for k=2.

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