In studying branching properties of alkanes, several numbering schemes for the edges of the associated hydrogen-suppressed graph were proposed based on the degrees of the end vertices of an edge [11]. To preserve rankings of certain molecules, some inequalities involving the weights of edges needed to be satisfied. Randić [11] stated that weighting all edges uv of the associated graph G by (d(u...

Abstract Graph theory has applications in various fields due to offering important tools such as topological indices. Among the indices, Randić index is simple and of great importance. The a graph

Let Tn denote the set of all unrooted and unlabeled trees with n vertices, and (i, j) a double-star. By assuming that every tree of Tn is equally likely, we show that the limiting distribution of the number of occurrences of the double-star (i, j) in Tn is normal. Based on this result, we obtain the asymptotic value of Randić index for trees. Fajtlowicz conjectured that for any connected graph ...

In chemical graph theory, many graph parameters, or topological indices, were proposed as estimators of molecular structural properties. Often several variants of an index are considered. The aim is to extend the original concept to larger families of graphs than initially considered, or to make it more precise and discriminant, or yet to make its range of values similar to that of another inde...

The Randić index R(G) of a graph G is defined by R(G) = ∑ uv 1 √ d(u)d(v) , where d(u) is the degree of a vertex u in G and the summation extends over all edges uv of G. Aouchiche et al. proposed a conjecture on the relationship between the Randić index and the diameter: for any connected graph on n ≥ 3 vertices with the Randić index R(G) and the diameter D(G), R(G) − D(G) ≥ √ 2 − n+1 2 and R(G...

The Randić index of a graph G, denoted by R(G), is defined as the sum 1/d(u)d(v) for all edges uv where d(u) denotes degree vertex u in G. In this note, we show that R(L(T))>n4 any tree T order n≥3. A number relevant conjectures are proposed.

Let G be a simple connected graph in chemical graph theory and uν e = be an edge of G. The Randić index ( ) G χ and sum-connectivity ( ) G X of a nontrivial connected graph G are defined as the sum of the weights ν ud d 1 and ν u d d + 1 over all edges ν u e = of G, respectively. In this paper, we compute Randić ( ) G χ and sum-connectivity ( ) G X indices of V-phenylenic nanotubes and nanotori.

The present note is devoted to establish some extremal results for the zerothorder general Randić index of cacti, characterize the extremal polyomino chains with respect to the aforementioned index, and hence to generalize two already reported results.