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Mostar index and bounded maximum degree

Combinatorics 2023-06-16 v1

Abstract

Do\v{s}li\'{c} et al. defined the Mostar index of a graph GG as Mo(G)=uvE(G)nG(u,v)nG(v,u)Mo(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}|n_G(u,v)-n_G(v,u)|, where, for an edge uvuv of GG, the term nG(u,v)n_G(u,v) denotes the number of vertices of GG that have a smaller distance in GG to uu than to vv. For a graph GG of order nn and maximum degree at most Δ\Delta, we show Mo(G)Δ2n2(1o(1))cΔnlog(log(n)),Mo(G)\leq \frac{\Delta}{2}n^2-(1-o(1))c_{\Delta}n\log(\log(n)), where cΔ>0c_{\Delta}>0 only depends on Δ\Delta and the o(1)o(1) term only depends on nn. Furthermore, for integers n0n_0 and Δ\Delta at least 33, we show the existence of a Δ\Delta-regular graph of order nn at least n0n_0 with Mo(G)Δ2n2cΔnlog(n),Mo(G)\geq \frac{\Delta}{2}n^2-c'_{\Delta}n\log(n), where cΔ>0c'_{\Delta}>0 only depends on Δ\Delta.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09089,
  title  = {Mostar index and bounded maximum degree},
  author = {Michael A. Henning and Johannes Pardey and Dieter Rautenbach and Florian Werner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09089},
  year   = {2023}
}
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