Extremal graphs with respect to the vertex PI index
β Scribed by M.J. Nadjafi-Arani; G.H. Fath-Tabar; A.R. Ashrafi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0893-9659
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β¦ Synopsis
The vertex PI index of a graph G is the sum over all edges uv β E(G) of the number of vertices which are not equidistant to u and v. In this paper, the extremal values of this new topological index are computed. In particular, we prove that for each n-vertex graph
2 , where x denotes the greatest integer not exceeding x and x is the smallest integer not less than x. The extremal graphs with respect to the vertex PI index are also determined.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
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A connected graph of order n is bicyclic if it has n + 1 edges. He et al. [C.X. He, J.Y. Shao, J.L. He, On the Laplacian spectral radii of bicyclic graphs, Discrete Math. 308 (2008) 5981-5995] determined, among the n-vertex bicyclic graphs, the first four largest Laplacian spectral radii together wi