On the Harmonic Index of Triangle-Free Graphs

On the harmonic index of bicyclic graphs

The harmonic index of a graph $G$, denoted by $H(G)$, is defined asthe sum of weights $2/[d(u)+d(v)]$ over all edges $uv$ of $G$, where$d(u)$ denotes the degree of a vertex $u$. Hu and Zhou [Y. Hu and X. Zhou, WSEAS Trans. Math. {bf 12} (2013) 716--726] proved that for any bicyclic graph $G$ of order $ngeq 4$, $H(G)le frac{n}{2}-frac{1}{15}$ and characterize all extremal bicyclic graphs.In this...

On Harmonic Index and Diameter of Unicyclic Graphs

The Harmonic index $ H(G) $ of a graph $ G $ is defined as the sum of the weights $ dfrac{2}{d(u)+d(v)} $ of all edges $ uv $ of $G$, where $d(u)$ denotes the degree of the vertex $u$ in $G$. In this work, we prove the conjecture $dfrac{H(G)}{D(G)} geq dfrac{1}{2}+dfrac{1}{3(n-1)}  $ given by Jianxi Liu in 2013 when G is a unicyclic graph and give a better bound $ dfrac{H(G)}{D(G)}geq dfra...

On the Evolution of Triangle-Free Graphs

On Generating Triangle-Free Graphs

We show that the problem to decide whether a graph can be made triangle-free with at most k edge deletions remains NP-complete even when restricted to planar graphs of maximum degree seven. In addition, we provide polynomial-time data reduction rules for this problem and obtain problem kernels consisting of 6k vertices for general graphs and 11k/3 vertices for planar graphs.

Acyclic chromatic index of triangle-free 1-planar graphs

An acyclic edge coloring of a graph G is a proper edge coloring such that every cycle is colored with at least three colors. The acyclic chromatic index χa(G) of a graph G is the least number of colors in an acyclic edge coloring of G. It was conjectured that χa(G) ≤ ∆(G) + 2 for any simple graph G with maximum degree ∆(G). A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on the plane such that every edg...