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The Minimal Total Irregularity of Graphs

Combinatorics 2014-04-04 v1

Abstract

In \cite{2012a}, Abdo and Dimitov defined the total irregularity of a graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E) as \hskip3.3cm irrt\rm irr_{t}(G)=12u,vVdG(u)dG(v),(G) = \frac{1}{2}\sum_{u,v\in V}|d_{G}(u)-d_{G}(v)|, \noindent where dG(u)d_{G}(u) denotes the vertex degree of a vertex uVu\in V. In this paper, we investigate the minimal total irregularity of the connected graphs, determine the minimal, the second minimal, the third minimal total irregularity of trees, unicyclic graphs, bicyclic graphs on nn vertices, and propose an open problem for further research.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0931,
  title  = {The Minimal Total Irregularity of Graphs},
  author = {Yingxue Zhu and Lihua You and Jieshan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0931},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures

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