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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 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

Let $G$ be a connected graph. The revised edge Szeged index of $G$ is defined as $Sz^{\ast}_{e}(G)=\sum\limits_{e=uv\in E(G)}(m_{u}(e|G)+\frac{m_{0}(e|G)}{2})(m_{v}(e|G)+\frac{m_{0}(e|G)}{2})$, where $m_{u}(e|G)$ (resp., $m_{v}(e|G)$) is…

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The algebraic degree $Deg(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the dimension of the splitting field of the adjacency polynomial of $G$ over the field $\mathbb{Q}$. It can be shown that for every positive integer $d$, there exists a circulant graph with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Sauvik Poddar , Angsuman Das

Let $S(G^{\sigma})$ be the skew-adjacency matrix of the oriented graph $G^{\sigma}$, which is obtained from a simple undirected graph $G$ by assigning an orientation $\sigma$ to each of its edges. The skew energy of an oriented graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Xiangxiang Liu , Ligong Wang

The Kirchhoff index of a connected graph is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in the graph. It found considerable applications in a variety of fields. In this paper, we determine the minimum Kirchhoff…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Xuli Qi , Bo Zhou , Zhibin Du

The minimum skew rank of a simple graph G over the field of real numbers, is the smallest possible rank among all real skew-symmetric matrices whose (i,j)-entry (for i not equal to j) is nonzero whenever {i, j} is an edge in G and is zero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Luz M. DeAlba

The variation of the Randi\'c index $ R'(G) $ of a graph $G$ is defined by\ $R(G) = \sum_{uv \in E(G)}\frac 1{\max \{d(u) d(v)\}}$, where $d(u)$ is the degree of vertex $u$ and the summation extends over all edges $uv$ of $G$. Let $G(k,n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Milica Milivojevic , Ljiljana Pavlovic

The Randi{\' c} index of a graph $G$, written $R(G)$, is the sum of $\frac 1{\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}}$ over all edges $uv$ in $E(G)$. %let $R(G)=\sum_{uv \in E(G)} \frac 1{\sqrt{d(u)d(v)}}$, which is called the Randi{\' c} index of it. Let $d$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-18 Suil O , Yongtang Shi

The Zagreb index of a hypergraph is defined as the sum of the squares of the degrees of its vertices. A connected $k$-uniform hypergraph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges is called bicyclic if $n=m(k-1)-1$. In this paper, we determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Hong Zhou , Changjiang Bu

F-index of a graph is the sum of the cube of the degrees of the vertices. In this paper, we investigate the F-indices of unicyclic graphs by introducing some transformation, and characterize the unicyclic graphs with the first five largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Ruhul Amin , Sk. Md. Abu Nayeem

A graph is chordal if it does not contain an induced cycle of length greater than three. We determine the minimum size of a chordal graph with given order and minimum degree. In doing so, we have discovered interesting properties of chordal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Xingzhi Zhan , Leilei Zhang

We introduce the \emph{ID-index} of a finite simple connected graph. For a graph $G=(V,\ E)$ with diameter $d$, we let $f:V\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}$ assign \emph{ranks} to the vertices, then under $f$, each vertex $v$ gets a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Runze Wang

Let $r(u,v)$ be the resistance distance between two vertices $u, v$ of a simple graph $G$, which is the effective resistance between the vertices in the corresponding electrical network constructed from $G$ by replacing each edge of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Jia-Bao Liu , Si-Qi Zhangb , Xiang-Feng Pan , Shaohui Wang , Sakander Hayat

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

The graph having the minimum reduced reciprocal Randi\'c index is characterized among the class of all unicyclic graphs with fixed number of vertices.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Akbar Ali , Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti

The degree set of a finite simple graph $G$ is the set of distinct degrees of vertices of $G$. A theorem of Kapoor, Polimeni & Wall asserts that the least order of a graph with a given degree set $\mathscr D$ is $1+\max \mathscr D$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Jai Moondra , Aditya Sahdev , Amitabha Tripathi

A graph $G$ is asymmetric if its automorphism group of vertices is trivial. Asymmetric graphs were introduced by Erd\H{o}s and R\'{e}nyi in 1963 where they measured the degree of asymmetry of an asymmetric graph. They proved that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Alejandra Brewer , Adam Gregory , Quindel Jones , Darren A. Narayan

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex (edge) labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. It is known that for every graph $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani