Title
Extremal t‐apex trees with respect to matching energy
Abstract
The matching energy of a graph is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the zeros of itsmatching polynomial. For any integer t >= 1, a graph G is called t-apex tree if there exists a t-set X subset of V(G) such that G - X is a tree, while for any Y subset of V(G) with vertical bar Y vertical bar < t, G - Y is not a tree. Let T-t(n) be the set of t-apex trees of order n. In this article, we determine the extremal graphs from T-t(n) with minimal and maximal matching energies, respectively. Moreover, as an application, the extremal cacti of order n and with s cycles have been completely characterized at which the minimal matching energy are attained. (C) 2015Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1002/cplx.21651
COMPLEXITY
Keywords
Field
DocType
t-apex tree,matching energy,quasi-order,cactus
Integer,Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Apex (geometry),Absolute value,Matching polynomial,Matching (graph theory),Factor-critical graph,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21.0
5
1076-2787
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kexiang Xu17211.43
zhiqing zheng220.40
Kinkar Ch. Das320830.32