A Characterization of Fractionally Well-Covered Graphs

James Currie 1, Richard Nowakowski2
1Department of Mathematics, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2 Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Abstract

A graph is called well-covered if every maximal independent set has the same size. One generalization of independent sets in graphs is that of a fractional cover – attach nonnegative weights to the vertices and require that for every vertex the sum of all the weights in its closed neighbourhood be at least 1. In this paper, we consider and characterize fractionally well-covered graphs.