Title
On the extremal Merrifield-Simmons index and Hosoya index of quasi-tree graphs
Abstract
It is well known that the two graph invariants, ''the Merrifield-Simmons index'' and ''the Hosoya index'' are important in structural chemistry. A graph G is called a quasi-tree graph, if there exists u"0 in V(G) such that G-u"0 is a tree. In this paper, at first we characterize the n-vertex quasi-tree graphs with the largest, the second-largest, the smallest and the second-smallest Merrifield-Simmons indices. Then we characterize the n-vertex quasi-tree graphs with the largest, the second-largest, the smallest and the second-smallest Hosoya indices, as well as those n-vertex quasi-tree graphs with k pendent vertices having the smallest Hosoya index.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.dam.2009.03.022
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
quasi-tree graph,smallest hosoya index,graph invariants,hosoya index,k pendent,second-smallest merrifield-simmons index,second-smallest hosoya index,merrifield–simmons index,n-vertex quasi-tree graph,graph g,merrifield-simmons index,extremal merrifield-simmons index,indexation
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Two-graph,Tree (graph theory),Vertex (geometry),Vertex (graph theory),Chordal graph,Hosoya index,Invariant (mathematics),Pathwidth,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
157
13
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.61
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuchao Li118335.15
Xuechao Li2306.16
wei jing3143.21