
The domatic number of a graph is the maximum number of vertex disjoint dominating sets that partition the vertex set of the graph. In this paper we consider the fractional variant of this notion. Graphs with fractional domatic number 1 are exactly the graphs that contain an isolated vertex. Furthermore, it is known that all other graphs have fractional domatic number at least 2. In this note we characterize graphs with fractional domatic number 2. More specifically, we show that a graph without isolated vertices has fractional domatic number 2 if and only if it has a vertex of degree 1 or a connected component isomorphic to a 4-cycle. We conjecture that if the fractional domatic number is more than 2, then it is at least 7/3.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Extremal problems in graph theory, Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM), domination number, Enumeration in graph theory, Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.), fractional domatic number, FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Combinatorics (math.CO), domatic number, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Extremal problems in graph theory, Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM), domination number, Enumeration in graph theory, Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.), fractional domatic number, FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Combinatorics, Combinatorics (math.CO), domatic number, Computer Science - Discrete Mathematics
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