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The Sombor index $SO(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of the edge weights $\sqrt{d^2_G(u)+d^2_G(v)}$ of all edges $uv$ of $G$, where $d_G(u)$ denotes the degree of the vertex $u$ in $G$. A connected graph $G = (V ,E)$ is called a quasi-tree,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Ruiting Zhang , Huiqing Liu , Yibo Li

We prove a conjecture of Nadjafi-Arani, Khodashenas and Ashrafi on the difference between the Szeged and Wiener index of a graph. Namely, if $G$ is a 2-connected non-complete graph on $n$ vertices, then $Sz(G)-W(G)\ge 2n-6$. Furthermore,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Marthe Bonamy , Martin Knor , Borut Lužar , Alexandre Pinlou , Riste Škrekovski

Let $G$ be an embedded graph and $A$ an edge subset of $G$. The partial dual of $G$ with respect to $A$, denoted by $G^A$, can be viewed as the geometric dual $G^*$ of $G$ over $A$. If $A=E(G)$, then $G^A=G^*$. Denote by $\gamma(G^A)$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Jiaying Chen , Xian'an Jin , Gang Zhang

Let $\prod(G)$ be Multiplicative Zagreb index of a graph G. A connected graph is a cactus graph if and only if any two of its cycles have at most one vertex in common, which has been the interest of researchers in the filed of material…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Shaohui Wang , Bing Wei

In 2010, Mkrtchyan, Petrosyan and Vardanyan proved that every graph $G$ with $2\leq \delta(G)\leq \Delta(G)\leq 3$ contains a maximum matching whose unsaturated vertices do not have a common neighbor, where $\Delta(G)$ and $\delta(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Petros A. Petrosyan

We study the maximum number of edges in an $n$ vertex graph with Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter no more than $t$. We conjecture that for every integer $t$, if $G$ is a graph with at least $t$ vertices and Colin de Verdi\`{e}re parameter at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Rose McCarty

Let $c$ be a proper edge colouring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ with integers $1,2,\ldots,k$. Then $k\geq \Delta(G)$, while by Vizing's theorem, no more than $k=\Delta(G)+1$ is necessary for constructing such $c$. On the course of investigating…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Marthe Bonamy , Jakub Przybyło

A simple connected graph G is called a p-quasi k-cyclic graph, if there exists a subset S of vertices such that |S|=p, G-S is k-cyclic and there is no a subset S` of V(G) such that |S`|<|S| and G-S` is k-cyclic. The aim of this paper is to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-08 A Ghalavand , A R Ashrafi

An equitable $k$-coloring of a graph is a proper $k$-coloring where the sizes of any two different color classes differ by at most one. In 1973, Meyer conjectured that every connected graph $G$ has an equitable $k$-coloring for some $k\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Yangyang Cheng , Zhenyu Li , Wanting Sun , Guanghui Wang

{\small The Wiener index $W(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of the distances between all pairs of vertices in the graph. The Szeged index $Sz(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as $Sz(G)=\sum_{e=uv \in E}n_u(e)n_v(e)$ where $n_u(e)$ and $n_v(e)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Lily Chen , Xueliang Li , Mengmeng Liu

In this work, we compute the first and second Zagreb indices for the commuting conjugacy class graphs associated with finite groups. We identify multiple classes of finite groups whose commuting conjugacy class graphs are shown to satisfy…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Shrabani Das , Rajat Kanti Nath , Yilun Shang

Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$.The Wiener index $W(G)$ of $G$ is the sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of vertices of $G$. In this paper we show that the well-known upper bound $\big( \frac{n}{\delta+1}+2\big) {n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Peter Dankelmann , Alex Alochukwu

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

Do\v{s}li\'{c} et al. defined the Mostar index of a graph $G$ as $Mo(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}|n_G(u,v)-n_G(v,u)|$, where, for an edge $uv$ of $G$, the term $n_G(u,v)$ denotes the number of vertices of $G$ that have a smaller distance in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Štefko Miklavič , Johannes Pardey , Dieter Rautenbach , Florian Werner

For $k \geq 1$ and a graph $G$ let $\nu_k(G)$ denote the size of a maximum $k$-edge-colorable subgraph of $G$. Mkrtchyan, Petrosyan and Vardanyan proved that $\nu_2(G)\geq \frac45\cdot |V(G)|$, $\nu_3(G)\geq \frac76\cdot |V(G)|$ for any…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lianna Hambardzumyan , Vahan Mkrtchyan

Let $\lambda(G)$ be the smallest number of vertices that can be removed from a non-empty graph $G$ so that the resulting graph has a smaller maximum degree. Let $\lambda_{\rm e}(G)$ be the smallest number of edges that can be removed from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Peter Borg

In this paper, we focus on comparing the first and second Zagreb-Fermat eccentricity indices of graphs. We show that $$\frac{\sum_{uv\in E\left( G \right)}{\varepsilon_3\left( u \right) \varepsilon_3\left( v \right)}}{m\left( G \right)}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Xiangrui Pan , Cheng Zeng , Longyu Li , Gengji Li

Let $\mathbb{G} = (\mathcal{V}, \mathcal{E})$ be a simple connected graph, where $\mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{E}$ denote the vertex and edge sets, respectively. The first Zagreb index is defined as $\mathcal{M}_{1}(\mathbb{G}) = \sum_{v \in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Waqar Ali , Mohamad Nazri Bin Husin , Muhammad Faisal Nadeem , Muqaddas Jabin

Kamyczura introduced the notion of a majority additive $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ as a function $c: V(G) \to \{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ such that $$\left|\left\{u \in N_G(v):\sum_{w \in N_G(u)} c(w) = s \right\}\right|\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Christoph Brause , Dieter Rautenbach , Laurin Schwartze

A graph $G$ consists of two parts, the vertices and edges. The vertices constitute the vertex set $V(G)$ and the edges, the edge set. An edge \( e=xy \), \( ev \)-dominates not only the vertices incident to it but also those adjacent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Amitariddhi Sinha , Somnath Paul