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On a relation between the Szeged index and the Wiener index for bipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2012-10-25 v1

Abstract

{\small The Wiener index W(G)W(G) of a graph GG is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices in the graph. The Szeged index Sz(G)Sz(G) of a graph GG is defined as Sz(G)=e=uvEnu(e)nv(e)Sz(G)=\sum_{e=uv \in E}n_u(e)n_v(e) where nu(e)n_u(e) and nv(e)n_v(e) are, respectively, the number of vertices of GG lying closer to vertex uu than to vertex vv and the number of vertices of GG lying closer to vertex vv than to vertex uu. Hansen used the computer programm AutoGraphiX and made the following conjecture about the Szeged index and the Wiener index for a bipartite connected graph GG with n4n \geq 4 vertices and mnm \geq n edges: Sz(G)W(G)4n8. Sz(G)-W(G) \geq 4n-8. Moreover the bound is best possible as shown by the graph composed of a cycle on 4 vertices C4C_4 and a tree TT on n3n-3 vertices sharing a single vertex. This paper is to give a confirmative proof to this conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6460,
  title  = {On a relation between the Szeged index and the Wiener index for bipartite graphs},
  author = {Lily Chen and Xueliang Li and Mengmeng Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6460},
  year   = {2012}
}

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