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We introduce a notion of the \emph{crux} of a graph $G$, measuring the order of a smallest dense subgraph in $G$. This simple-looking notion leads to some generalisations of known results about cycles, offering an interesting paradigm of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 John Haslegrave , Jie Hu , Jaehoon Kim , Hong Liu , Bingyu Luan , Guanghui Wang

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

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

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on $n$ vertices for each $n\in\{16,\ldots,30\}$. When $n\leq 21$, our bounds match the best known lower bounds, and we fully enumerate the densest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Boris Alexeev , Dustin G. Mixon , Hans Parshall

The vertex PI index $PI(G) = \sum_{xy \in E(G)} [n_{xy}(x) + n_{xy}(y)]$ is a distance-based molecular structure descriptor, where $n_{xy}(x)$ denotes the number of vertices which are closer to the vertex $x$ than to the vertex $y$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Chunxiang Wang , Shaohui Wang , Bing Wei

For a graph (undirected, directed, or mixed), a cycle-factor is a collection of vertex-disjoint cycles covering the entire vertex set. Cycle-factors subject to parity constraints arise naturally in the study of structural graph theory and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Florian Hörsch , Csaba Király , Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Gyula Pap , Eszter Szabó , Yutaro Yamaguchi

Various questions related to distances between vertices of simple, finite graphs are of interest to extremal graph theorists. The Steiner distance of a set of $k$ vertices is a natural generalization of the regular distance. We extend…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Hua Wang , Andrew Zhang

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

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 sum of all Steiner distances on sets of size $k$ is called the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Matjaž Kovše , Rasila V A , Ambat Vijayakumar

Let $G$ be a simple undirected $n$-vertex graph with the characteristic polynomial of its Laplacian matrix $L(G)$, $\det (\lambda I - L (G))=\sum_{k = 0}^n (-1)^k c_k \lambda^{n - k}$. It is well known that for trees the Laplacian…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Aleksandar Ilic , Andreja Ilic , Dragan Stevanovic

In this paper we obtain bounds on a very general class of distance-based topological indices of graphs, which includes the Wiener index, defined as the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices of the graph, and most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Peter Dankelmann

In a graph G; a vertex (resp. an edge) metric generator is a set of vertices S such that any pair of vertices (resp. edges) from G is distinguished by at least one vertex from S: The cardinality of a smallest vertex (resp. edge) metric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski

We study a large family of graph covering problems, whose definitions rely on distances, for graphs of bounded cyclomatic number (that is, the minimum number of edges that need to be removed from the graph to destroy all cycles). These…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Florent Foucaud , Anni Hakanen

The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of distances between all unordered pairs of vertices. Sam Spiro [The Wiener index of signed graphs, Appl. Math. Comput., 416(2022)126755] recently introduced the Wiener index for a signed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Songlin Guo , Wei Wang , Chuanming Wang

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 eternal vertex cover problem is a dynamic variant of the classical vertex cover problem. It is NP-hard to compute the eternal vertex cover number of graphs and known algorithmic results for the problem are very few. This paper presents…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jasine Babu , Veena Prabhakaran , Arko Sharma

In 1996, in his last paper, Erd\H{o}s asked the following question that he formulated together with Faudree: is there a positive $c$ such that any $(n+1)$-regular graph $G$ on $2n$ vertices contains at least $c 2^{2n}$ distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Nemanja Draganić , Peter Keevash , Alp Müyesser

One way to certify that a graph does not contain an induced cycle of length six is to provide a partition of its vertex set into (i) a stable set, and (ii) a graph containing no stable set of size three and no induced matching of size two.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Bruce Reed

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 cycle set of a graph $G$ is the set consisting of all sizes of cycles in $G$. Answering a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Faudree, Verstra\"{e}te showed that there are at most $2^{n - n^{1/10}}$ different cycle sets of graphs with $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Rajko Nenadov