For a nontrivial graph G, its first Zagreb coindex is defined as the sum of degree sum over all non-adjacent vertex pairs in G and the second Zagreb coindex is defined as the sum of degree product over all non-adjacent vertex pairs in G. Till now, established results concerning Zagreb coindices are mainly related to composite graphs and extremal values of some special graphs. The existing liter...

Topological indices are the mathematical tools that correlate the chemical structure with various physical properties, chemical reactivity or biological activity numerically. A topological index is a function having a set of graphs as its domain and a set of real numbers as its range. In QSAR/QSPR study, a prediction about the bioactivity of chemical compounds is made on the basis of physico-ch...

For a simple graph G with n vertices and m edges, the inequality M1(G)/n ≤ M2(G)/m, where M1(G) and M2(G) are the first and the second Zagreb indices of G, is known as Zagreb indices inequality. Generalization of these indices gives first M1(G) and second M2(G) variable Zagreb indices. Vukičević in [13] has given an incomplete proof for the claim: for all simple graphs and all λ ∈ [0, 12 ], hol...

The Zagreb indices are among the oldest and the most famous topological molecular structure-descriptors. The first Zagreb index is equal to the sum of the squares of the degrees of the vertices, and the second Zagreb index is equal to the sum of the products of the degrees of pairs of adjacent vertices of the respective graph. In this paper, we characterize the extremal graphs with maximal, sec...

Recently two new degree concepts have been defined in graph theory: ev-degree and ve-degree. Also the evdegree and ve-degree Zagreb and Randić indices have been defined very recently as parallel of the classical definitions of Zagreb and Randić indices. It was shown that ev-degree and ve-degree topological indices can be used as possible tools in QSPR researches . In this paper we d...

Let G = (V,E) be a simple graph with n = |V | vertices and m = |E| edges; let d1, d2, . . . , dn denote the degrees of the vertices of G. If ∆ = max i di ≤ 4, G is a chemical graph. The first and second Zagreb indices are defined as M1 = ∑

The reformulated Zagreb indices of a graph are obtained from the classical Zagreb indices by replacing vertex degrees with edge degrees, where the degree of an edge is taken as the sum of degrees of the end vertices of the edge minus 2. In this paper, we study the behavior of the reformulated first Zagreb index and apply our results to different chemically interesting molecular graphs and nano-...