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The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of topological distances between all pairs of vertices. Since Wang gave a mistake result on the maximum Wiener index for given tree degree sequence, in this paper, we investigate the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-23 Xiao-Dong Zhang , Yong Liu , Min-Xian Han

The Steiner distance of vertices in a set $S$ is the minimum size of a connected subgraph that contain these vertices. The sum of the Steiner distances over all sets $S$ of cardinality $k$ is called the Steiner $k$-Wiener index and studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Jie Zhang , Hua Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The Wiener index of a graph, which is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices, has been well studied. Recently, Sills and Wang in 2012 proposed two conjectures on the maximal Wiener index of trees with a given degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Ya-Lei Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The Wiener index of a connected graph is defined as the sum of the distances between all unordered pair of its vertices. In this paper, we characterize the graphs which extremize the Wiener index among all graphs on $n$ vertices with $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Dinesh Pandey , Kamal Lochan Patra

The distance of a vertex in a graph is the sum of distances from that vertex to all other vertices of the graph. The Wiener index of a graph is the sum of distances between all its unordered pairs of vertices. A graph has been obtained that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Dinesh Pandey

The terminal Wiener index of a tree is the sum of distances for all pairs of pendent vertices, which recently arises in the study of phylogenetic tree reconstruction and the neighborhood of trees. This paper presents a sharp upper and lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ya-Hong Chen , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The Wiener index of a graph is the sum of all the distances between any pair of vertices. We aim to describe graphs which minimize the Wiener index among all unicyclic graphs with fixed girth and given degree sequence. Depending on where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Alewyn P. Burger , Valisoa R. M. Rakotonarivo

The Wiener index (i.e., the total distance or the transmission number), defined as the sum of distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in a graph, is one of the most popular molecular descriptors. In this article we summarize some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski , Aleksandra Tepeh

The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of vertices. We provide formulae for the minimum Wiener index of simple triangulations and quadrangulations with connectivity at least $c$, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Éva Czabarka , Trevor Olsen , Stephen Smith , László A. Székely

The eccentricity of a vertex $u$ in a connected graph $G$ is the distance between $u$ and a vertex farthest from it; the eccentric sequence of $G$ is the nondecreasing sequence of the eccentricities of $G$. In this paper, we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Peter Dankelmann , Audace A. V. Dossou-Olory

The Wiener index is defined as the sum of distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in a graph. It is one of the most recognized and well-researched topological indices, which is on the other hand still a very active area of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski , Aleksandra Tepeh

The Wiener index of a vertex coloring of a graph is defined to be the sum of all pairwise geodesic distances between vertices of the same color. We provide characterizations of vertex colorings of paths and cycles whose Wiener index is as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Viktoriya Bardenova , Neal Bushaw , Brent Cody , Paul Fay , Maya Tennant

Given a simple connected undirected graph G, the Wiener index W(G) of G is defined as half the sum of the distances over all pairs of vertices of G. In practice, G corresponds to what is known as the molecular graph of an organic compound.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-13 R. Balakrishnan , N. Sridharan , K. V. Iyer

The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices in the graph. It was conjectured that the Wiener index of an $n$-vertex maximal planar graph is at most $\lfloor\frac{1}{18}(n^3+3n^2)\rfloor$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Debarun Ghosh , Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Nika Salia , Oscar Zamora

Wiener index, defined as the sum of distances between all unordered pairs of vertices, is one of the most popular molecular descriptors. It is well known that among 2-vertex connected graphs on $n\ge 3$ vertices, the cycle $C_n$ attains the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Stéphane Bessy , François Dross , Martin Knor , Riste Škrekovski

The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of the distance of all pairs of distinct vertices. It was introduced by Wiener in 1947 to analyze some aspects of branching by fitting experimental data for several properties of alkane…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-10 Peter Luo , Cun-Quan Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

We study that over some types of trees with a given number of vertices, which trees minimize or maximize the total number of subtrees. Trees minimizing (resp. maximizing) the total number of subtrees usually maximize (resp. minimize) the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Shuchao Li , Shujing Wang

The transmission of a vertex $v$ in a (chemical) graph $G$ is the sum of distances from $v$ to other vertices in $G$. If any two vertices of $G$ have different transmissions, then $G$ is transmission irregular. The Wiener index $W(G)$ of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Ivan Damnjanović , Anran Xu , Kexiang Xu

The Wiener index of a (hyper)graph is calculated by summing up the distances between all pairs of vertices. We determine the maximum possible Wiener index of a connected $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph and characterize for every~$n$ all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Stijn Cambie , Ervin Győri , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , James Tuite

Let $G$ be a a connected graph. The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of vertices. We provide asymptotic formulae for the maximum Wiener index of simple triangulations and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Éva Czabarka , Peter Dankelmann , Trevor Olsen , László A. Székely
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