Bereg and Wang defined a new class of highly balanced d-ary trees which they call k-trees; these trees have the interesting property that the internal path length and thus the Wiener index can be calculated quite easily. A k-tree is characterized by the property that all levels, except for the last k levels, are completely filled. Bereg and Wang claim that the number of k-trees is exponentially...

The Wiener index is a graph invariant that has found extensive application in chemistry. In addition to that a generating function, which was called the Wiener polynomial, who’s derivate is a q-analog of the Wiener index was defined. In an article, Sagan, Yeh and Zhang in [The Wiener Polynomial of a graph, Int. J. Quantun Chem., 60 (1996), 959969] attained what graph operations do to the Wiene...

Given a simple connected undirected graph G, the Wiener index W (G) of G is defined as half the sum of the distances over all pairs of vertices of G. In practice, G corresponds to what is known as the molecular graph of an organic compound. We obtain a sharp lower bound for W (G) of an arbitrary graph in terms of the order, size and diameter of G.

The Wiener index of a graph is defined as the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices in a connected graph. Wiener index correlates well with many physio chemical properties of organic compounds and as such has been well studied over the last quarter of a century. In this paper we prove some general results on Wiener Index for graphs using degree sequence.

Let (G,w) be a network, that is, a graph G = (V (G), E(G)) together with the weight function w : E(G) → R. The Szeged index Sz(G,w) of the network (G,w) is introduced and proved that Sz(G,w) ≥ W (G,w) holds for any connected network where W (G,w) is the Wiener index of (G,w). Moreover, equality holds if and only if (G,w) is a block network in which w is constant on each of its blocks. Analogous...

We construct several infinite families of trees which have a unique branching vertex of degree 4 and whose Wiener index equals the Wiener index of their quadratic line graph. This solves an open problem of Dobrynin and Mel’nikov.

Let G be a graph. Denote by L(G) its i-iterated line graph and denote by W (G) its Wiener index. Dobrynin, Entringer and Gutman stated the following problem: Does there exist a non-trivial tree T and i ≥ 3 such that W (L(T )) = W (T )? In a series of five papers we solve this problem. In a previous paper we proved that W (L(T )) > W (T ) for every tree T that is not homeomorphic to a path, claw...

Graphical matrices are presented. Their construction via selected sets of subgraphs and the replacement of subgraphs by numbers representing graph invariants are discussed. The last step of the procedure is to apply the method of choice for obtaining the desired double invariant from the graphical matrix in the numerical form. It is also pointed out that many so-called special graph-theoretical...