We propose a family of graph structural indices related to the matrix-forest theorem. The properties of the basic index that expresses the mutual connectivity of two vertices are studied in detail. The derivative indices that measure “dissociation,” “solitariness,” and “provinciality” of vertices are also considered. A nonstandard metric on the set of vertices is introduced, which is determined...

Complex networks are ubiquitous in biological, physical and social sciences. Network robustness research aims at finding a measure to quantify network robustness. A number of Wiener type indices have recently been incorporated as distance-based descriptors of complex networks. Wiener type indices are known to depend both on the network's number of nodes and topology. The Wiener polarity index i...

2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: Primary 05C22; Secondary 05C15, 05C25, 05C30 Abstract. Up to switching isomorphism there are six ways to put signs on the edges of the Petersen graph. We prove this by computing switching invariants, especially frustration indices and frustration numbers, switching automorphism groups, chromatic numbers, and numbers of proper 1-colorations, thereby illu...

Abstract Topological indices of nanotubes are numerical descriptors that are derived from graph of chemical compounds. Such indices based on the distances in graph are widely used for establishing relationships between the structure of nanotubes and their physico-chemical properties. The Szeged index is obtained as a bond additive quantity where bond contributions are given as the product of th...

The detour index of a connected graph is defined as the sum of the detour distances (lengths of longest paths) between unordered pairs of vertices of the graph. We give bounds for the detour index, determine the graphs with minimum and maximum detour indices respectively in the class of n-vertex unicyclic graphs with cycle length r, where 3 ≤ r ≤ n−2, and the graphs with the first, the second a...

The F-index of a graph is defined as the sum of cubes of the vertex degrees of the graph which was introduced in 1972, in the same paper where the first and second Zagreb indices were introduced. In this paper we study the F-index of four operations on graphs which were introduced by Eliasi and Taeri [M. Eliasi, B. Taeri, Four new sums of graphs and their Wiener indices, Discrete Appl. Math.157...

In this paper, a novel eccentric neighborhood degree-based topological indices, termed Zagreb have been conceptualized and its discriminating power investigated with regard to the predictability of boiling point chemical substances. The indices was compared that Wiener connectivity indices. Some explicit results for those new some graphs graph operations such as join, disjunction, composition, ...

The Harary index is defined as the sum of reciprocals of distances between all pairs of vertices of a connected graph. In this paper, the exact formulae for the Harary indices of tensor product G × Km0,m1,...,mr−1 and the strong product G⊠Km0,m1,...,mr−1 , whereKm0,m1,...,mr−1 is the complete multipartite graph with partite sets of sizes m0,m1, . . . ,mr−1 are obtained. Also upper bounds for th...

Topological indices are the numerical value associated with chemical constitution purporting for correlation of chemical structure with various physical properties, chemical reactivity or biological activity. Graph theory is a delightful playground for the exploration of proof techniques in Discrete Mathematics and its results have applications in many areas of sciences. One of the useful indic...

The expensive and time-consuming process of drug lead discovery is significantly accelerated by efficiently screening molecular libraries with a high structural diversity and selecting subsets of molecules according to their similarity toward specific collections of active compounds. To characterize the molecular similarity/diversity or to quantify the drug-like character of compounds the proce...