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The F-index of a graph is defined as the sum of cubes of the vertex degrees of the graph. This was introduced in 1972, in the same paper where the first and second Zagreb indices were introduced to study the structure-dependency of total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-23 Nilanjan De , Sk. Md. Abu Nayeem , Anita Pal

Xu in 2011 determined the largest value of the second Zagreb index in an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with clique number $k$, and also the smallest value with the additional assumption that $G$ is connected. We extend these results to other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Dániel Gerbner

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a graph. The first Zagreb index of a graph $G$ is defined as $\sum_{u \in V} d^2(u)$, where $d(u)$ is the degree of vertex $u$ in $G$. Using the P\'{o}lya-Szeg\H{o} inequality, we in this paper present the first Zagreb…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Rao Li

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 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

For a molecular graph, the first multiplicative Zagreb index $\Pi_1$ is equal to the product of the square of the degree of the vertices, while the second multiplicative Zagreb index $\Pi_2$ is equal to the product of the endvertex degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Shaohui Wang , Chunxiang Wang , Lin Chen

A topological index is a real number which is derived from a network or a graph by mathematically that characterizes the whole of its structural properties. Recently, there are various topological indices that have been introduced in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Prosanta Sarkar , Nilanjan De , Anita Pal

Augmented Zagreb Index is a newly defined degree based topological invariant which has been well established for its better correlation properties and is defined as $AZI(G)= \sum_{uv\in E(G)}(\frac{d_G (u)d_G (v)}{d_G (u)+ d_G (v)-2})^3 $,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Nazeran Idrees , Afshan Sadiq , Muhammad Jawwad Saif , Asia Rauf

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph with $n = |V|$ vertices and $m = |E|$ edges. The first and second Zagreb indices are among the oldest and the most famous topological indices, defined as $M_1 = \sum_{i \in V} d_i^2$ and $M_2 = \sum_{(i, j)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-22 Aleksandar Ilić , Dragan Stevanović

Topological indices play an important role in mathematical chemistry especially in the quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR). Recent research indicates that the augmented…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Akbar Ali , Zahid Raza , Akhlaq Ahmad Bhatti

Let $D=(V,A)$ be a digraphs without isolated vertices. The first Zagreb index of a digraph $D$ defined as a summation over all arcs, $M_1(D)=\frac{1}{2}\sum\limits_{uv\in A}(d^{+}_{u}+d^{-}_v)$, where $d^{+}_u$(resp. $d^{-}_u$) denotes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jiaxiang Yang , Hanyuan Deng

The authors Mili$\breve{c}$evi$\acute{c}$ et al. introduced the reformulated Zagreb indices, which is a generalization of classical Zagreb indices of chemical graph theory. In the paper, we characterize the extremal properties of the first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Shengjin Ji , Xia Li , Yongke Qu

This paper presents new lower bounds for the first general Zagreb index $Z_{\alpha}(G)$ involving two, three, and four arbitrary degrees of vertices of a simple graph $G$. For the special cases $\alpha = 2$ and $\alpha = -2$, the results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Mamta Verma , Ravinder Kumar

In this paper, we investigate the structural properties of trees and bipartite graphs through the lens of topological indices and combinatorial graph theory. We focus on the First and Second Hyper-Zagreb indices, $HM_1(G)$ and $HM_2(G)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Jasem Hamoud

The Mostar index of a connected graph \(G\) is defined as \[ Mo(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}\bigl|n_u(uv)-n_v(uv)\bigr|, \] where for an edge \(e=uv\), \(n_u(e)\) denotes the number of vertices of \(G\) that are closer to \(u\) than to \(v\). In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Sunilkumar M. Hosamani

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. The hyper Zagreb index of $G$, denoted by $HM(G)$, is defined as $HM(G) =\sum\limits_{uv \in E(G)}\left[d_{G}(u)+d_G(v)\right]^{2}$ where $d_G(v)$ denotes the degree of a vertex $v$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Chidambaram Natarajan , Selvaraj Balachandran , SK Ayyaswamy

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 the last forty years, many scientists used graph theory to develop mathematical models for analyzing structures and properties of various chemical compounds. In this paper, we will establish formulas and bounds for generalized first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Sanju Vaidya , Jeff Chang

Let G be a simple connected molecular graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. One important modification of classical Zagreb index, called hyper Zagreb index $HM(G)$ is defined as the sum of squares of the degree sum of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Nilanjan De

Topological indices have important role in theoretical chemistry for QSPR researches. Among the all topological indices the Randi\'c and the Zagreb indices have been used more considerably than any other topological indices in chemical and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Süleyman Ediz