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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 \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

In this paper, we prove a collection of results on graphical indices. We determine the extremal graphs attaining the maximal generalized Wiener index (e.g. the hyper-Wiener index) among all graphs with given matching number or independence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Stijn Cambie

The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of vertices. A connected graph is Eulerian if its vertex degrees are all even. In [Gutman, Cruz, Rada, Wiener index of Eulerian Graphs, Discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Peter Dankelmann

The subpath number of a graph G is defined as the total number of subpaths in G, and it is closely related to the number of subtrees, a well-studied topic in graph theory. This paper is a continuation of our previous paper [5], where we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Martin Knor , Jelena Sedlar , Riste Škrekovski , Yu Yang

The vertex $k$-partiteness $v_k(G)$ of graph $G$ is defined as the fewest number of vertices whose deletion from $G$ yields a $k$-partite graph. In this paper, we introduce two concepts: monotonic decreasing topological index and monotonic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Fang Gao , Duo Duo Zhao , Xiao-Xin Li , Jia-Bao Liu

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 eccentricity matrix of a simple connected graph is derived from its distance matrix by preserving the largest non-zero distance in each row and column, while the other entries are set to zero. This article examines the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Anjitha Ashokan , Chithra A

This paper investigates some properties of the number of subtrees of a tree with given degree sequence. These results are used to characterize trees with the given degree sequence that have the largest number of subtrees, which generalizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-04 Xiu-Mei Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang , Daniel Gray , Hua Wang

Let $G$ be a molecular graph. The total-eccentricity index of graph $G$ is defined as the sum of eccentricities of all vertices of $G$. %In [R. Farooq, M.A. Malik, J. Rada, Extremal graphs with respect to total-eccentricity index, 2017,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Mehar Ali Malik , Rashid Farooq

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 aim of this paper is to obtain new inequalities for a large family of topological indices restricted to unicyclic graphs and to characterize the set of extremal unicyclic graphs with respect to them. This family includes variable first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Álvaro Martínez-Pérez , José M. Rodríguez

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

Using a generating function approach, the correlation coefficients of four different graph-theoretical indices, namely the number of independent vertex subsets, the number of matchings, the number of subtrees and the Wiener index, are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephan Wagner

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

In a connected graph G, the distance between two vertices of G is the length of a shortest path between these vertices. The eccentricity of a vertex u in G is the largest distance between u and any other vertex of G. The total-eccentricity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Rashid Farooq , Mehar Ali Malik , Juan Rada

The Harary index of a graph $G$ is recently introduced topological index, defined on the reverse distance matrix as $H(G)=\sum_{u,v \in V(G)}\frac{1}{d(u,v)}$, where $d(u,v)$ is the length of the shortest path between two distinct vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Aleksandar Ili\' c , Guihai Yu , Lihua Feng

In this paper, we refer to a asymptotic degree sequence as $\mathscr{D}=(d_1,d_2,\dots,d_n)$. The examination of topological indices on trees gives us a general overview through bounds to find the maximum and minimum bounds which reflect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jasem Hamoud , Duaa Abdullah

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 strong digraph $D$ is defined as the sum of the distances between all ordered pairs of vertices. This definition has been extended to digraphs that are not necessarily strong by defining the distance from a vertex $a$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Peter Dankelmann