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For a graph $G$, the Mostar index of $G$ is the sum of $|n_u(e)$ - $n_v(e)|$ over all edges $e=uv$ of $G$, where $n_u(e)$ denotes the number of vertices of $G$ that have a smaller distance in $G$ to $u$ than to $v$, and analogously for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Fazal Hayat , Shou-Jun Xu

We obtain the maximum sum-connectivity indices of graphs in the set of trees and in the set of unicyclic graphs respectively with given number of vertices and maximum degree, and determine the corresponding extremal graphs. Additionally, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Zhibin Du , Bo Zhou , Nenad Trinajstic

The transmission of a vertex $v$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of distances from $v$ to all the other vertices in $G$. The Wiener complexity of $G$ is the number of different transmissions of its vertices. Similarly, the eccentric complexity of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Kexiang Xu , Aleksandar Ilić , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar , Huimin Li

In this paper, we investigate how the Wiener index of unicyclic graphs varies with graph operations. These results are used to present a sharp lower bound for the Wiener index of unicyclic graphs of order $n$ with girth and the matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Ya-Hong Chen , Xiao-Dong Zhang

The eccentricity of a vertex $v$ in a graph $G$ is the maximum distance from $v$ to any other vertex. The vertices whose eccentricity are equal to the diameter (the maximum eccentricity) of $G$ are called peripheral vertices. In trees the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Ya-Hong Chen , Hua Wang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

In this paper, we consider a molecular descriptor called the Wiener polarity index, which is defined as the number of unordered pairs of vertices at distance three in a graph. Molecular descriptors play a fundamental role in chemistry,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Niko Tratnik

Besides the well known Wiener index, which sums up the distances between all the pairs of vertices, and the hyper-Wiener index, which includes also the squares of distances, the edge versions of both indices attracted a lot of attention in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Petra Žigert Pleteršek

When considering the number of subtrees of trees, the extremal structures which maximize this number among binary trees and trees with a given maximum degree lead to some interesting facts that correlate to other graphical indices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Xiu-Mei Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang , Daniel Gray , Hua Wang

The \emph{Wiener index} is a widely studied topological index of graphs. One of the main problems in the area is to determine which graphs of given properties attain the extremal values of Wiener index. In this paper we resolve an open…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Jan Bok , Nikola Jedličková , Jana Maxová

The edge-Wiener index $W_e(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is the sum of distances between all pairs of edges of $G$. A connected graph $G$ is said to be a cactus if each of its blocks is either a cycle or an edge. Let $\mathcal{G}_{n,t}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Siyan Liu , Rong-Xia Hao

The Wiener polynomial of a connected graph $G$ is defined as $W(G;x)=\sum x^{d(u,v)}$, where $d(u,v)$ denotes the distance between $u$ and $v$, and the sum is taken over all unordered pairs of distinct vertices of $G$. We examine the nature…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Jason I. Brown , Ortrud Oellermann , Lucas Mol

Let $S$ be a set of vertices of a connected graph $G$. The Steiner distance of $S$ is the minimum size of a connected subgraph of $G$ containing all the vertices of $S$. The Steiner $k$-Wiener index is the sum of all Steiner distances on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Matjaž Kovše , Rasila V A , Ambat Vijayakumar

The Wiener polarity index of a graph is defined as the number of unordered pairs of vertices at distance three. In recent years, this topological index was extensively studied since it has many known applications in chemistry and also in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Niko Tratnik

For a connected graph $G$, the Wiener index, denoted by $W(G)$, is the sum of the distance of all pairs of distinct vertices and the eccentricity, denoted by $\varepsilon(G)$, is the sum of the eccentricity of individual vertices. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Joyentanuj Das , Ritabrata Jana

The Harary index of a graph is defined as the sum of reciprocals of distances between all pairs of vertices of the graph. In this paper we provide an upper bound of the Harary index in terms of the vertex or edge connectivity of a graph. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Xiao-Xin Li , Yi-Zheng Fan

The aim of this paper is to obtain new inequalities for a large family of generalizations of the Wiener Index and to characterize the set of extremal graphs with respect to them. Our main results provide upper and lower bounds for these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Álvaro Martínez-Pérez , osé M. Rodríguez

The eccentricity of a vertex $v$ in a graph $G$ is the maximum distance between $v$ and any other vertex of $G$. The diameter of a graph $G$ is the maximum eccentricity of a vertex in $G$. The eccentric connectivity index of a connected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Pierre Hauweele , Alain Hertz , Hadrien Mélot , Bernard Ries , Gauvain Devillez

The Wiener index $W(G)$ is the sum of distances of all pairs of vertices of the graph $G$. The Wiener polarity index $W_{p}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the number of unordered pairs of vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$ such that the distance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mohamed Amine Boutiche

The Wiener polarity index of a graph G is the number of unordered pairs of vertices u, v such that the distance between u and v is 3. In this paper we give an explicit formula for the Wiener polarity index of cactus graphs. We also deduce…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Nan Chen , Wen-Xue Du , Yi-Zheng Fan

The average distance of a vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$. The proximity $\pi(G)$ and the remoteness $\rho(G)$ of $G$ are the minimum and the maximum of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Peter Dankelmann , Sonwabile Mafunda , Sufiyan Mallu