Conjugated trees with minimum general Randic index

The general Randić index Rα(G) is the sum of the weights (dG(u)dG(v)) over all edges uv of a (molecular) graph G, where α is a real number and dG(u) is the degree of the vertex u of G. In this paper, for any real number α ≤ −1, the minimum general Randić index Rα(T ) among all the conjugated trees (trees with a Kekulé structure) is determined and the corresponding extremal conjugated trees are characterized. These trees are also extremal over all the conjugated chemical trees. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.