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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

Let $\ell$ denote a positive integer. A connected graph $\G$ of diameter at least $\ell$ is said to be $\ell${\it -distance-balanced} whenever for any pair of vertices $u,v$ of $\G$ such that $d(u,v)=\ell$, the number of vertices closer to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Stefko Miklavic , Primoz Sparl

For a connected graph, the distance spectral radius is the largest eigenvalue of its distance matrix, and the distance energy is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of its distance matrix. We establish lower and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Bo Zhou , Aleksandar Ilic

Some of the most fundamental and well-studied graph parameters are the Diameter (the largest shortest paths distance) and Radius (the smallest distance for which a "center" node can reach all other nodes). The natural and important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Nikhil Vyas , Nicole Wein

The Wiener index of a connected graph is the summation of all distances between unordered pairs of vertices of the graph. In this paper, we give an upper bound on the Wiener index of a $k$-connected graph $G$ of order $n$ for integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Zhongyuan Che , Karen L. Collins

The Randi\'c index of a graph $G$, denoted by $R(G)$, is defined as the sum of $1/\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}$ over all edges $uv$ of $G$, where $d(u)$ denotes the degree of a vertex $u$ in $G$. In this paper, we partially solve two conjectures on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-30 Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

Given a graph $G$, let $\mathrm{diam}(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$ which lie in the same connected component, and let $\mathrm{diam}^+(G)$ be the greatest distance between any two vertices of $G$; so…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Louigi Addario-Berry , Gabriel Crudele

A well-defined distance on the parameter space is key to evaluating estimators, ensuring consistency, and building confidence sets. While there are typically standard distances to adopt in a continuous space, this is not the case for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Armeen Taeb , F. Richard Guo , Leonard Henckel

For a vertex set $S\subseteq V(G)$ in a graph $G$, the {\em distance multiset}, $D(S)$, is the multiset of pairwise distances between vertices of $S$ in $G$. Two vertex sets are called {\em homometric} if their distance multisets are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Maria Axenovich , Lale Özkahya

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 metric (resp. edge metric) dimension of a simple connected graph $G$, denoted by dim$(G)$ (resp. edim$(G)$), is the cardinality of a smallest vertex subset $S\subseteq V(G)$ for which every two distinct vertices (resp. edges) in $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Enqiang Zhu , Shaoxiang Peng , Chanjuan Liu

The conditional diameter of a connected graph $\Gamma=(V,E)$ is defined as follows: given a property ${\cal P}$ of a pair $(\Gamma_1, \Gamma_2)$ of subgraphs of $\Gamma$, the so-called \emph{conditional diameter} or ${\cal P}$-{\em…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. A. Rodriguez

Two graph parameters are said to be coarsely equivalent if they are within constant factors from each other for every graph $G$. Recently, several graph parameters were shown to be coarsely equivalent to tree-length. Recall that the length…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Feodor F. Dragan

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Peter Dankelmann , Elizabeth Jonck , Sonwabile Mafunda

We study the problem of computing the diameter and the mean distance of a continuous graph, i.e., a connected graph where all points along the edges, instead of only the vertices, must be taken into account. It is known that for continuous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sergio Cabello , Delia Garijo , Antonia Kalb , Fabian Klute , Irene Parada , Rodrigo I. Silveira

In this paper, we study a question of Hong from 1993 related to the minimum spectral radii of the adjacency matrices of connected graphs of given order and size. Hong asked if it is true that among all connected graphs of given number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Vishal Gupta , Celso Marques

Let $G$ be a finite, connected metric graph and let $X\subseteq G$ be a subset. If $X$ is sufficiently dense in $G$, we show that the Gromov--Hausdorff distance matches the Hausdorff distance, namely $d_\gh(G,X)=d_\h(G,X)$. When the metric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Henry Adams , Sushovan Majhi , Fedor Manin , Žiga Virk , Nicolò Zava

Erd\H{o}s, Harary, and Tutte defined the dimension of a graph $G$ as the smallest natural number $n$ such that $G$ can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with each edge a straight line segment of length 1. Since the proposal of this definition,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Thomas Giardina , Joel Foisy

Given a directed graph G and an integer k >= 1, a k-transitive-closure-spanner (k-TCspanner) of G is a directed graph H that has (1) the same transitive-closure as G and (2) diameter at most k. In some applications, the shortcut paths added…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Piotr Berman , Arnab Bhattacharyya , Elena Grigorescu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , David Woodruff , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

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