Article history: Available online 25 March 2011 Submitted by J.J. Loiseau AMS classification: 15A80 15A39 15A03

distance-balanced graphs are introduced as graphs in which every edge uv has the followingproperty: the number of vertices closer to u than to v is equal to the number of vertices closerto v than to u. basic properties of these graphs are obtained. in this paper, we study theconditions under which some graph operations produce a distance-balanced graph.

a special class of cubic graphs are the cycle permutation graphs. a cycle permutation graph pn(α) is defined by taking two vertex-disjoint cycles on n vertices and adding a matching between the vertices of the two cycles.in this paper we determine a good upper bound for tenacity of cycle permutation graphs.

the total version of geometric–arithmetic index of graphs is introduced based on the endvertexdegrees of edges of their total graphs. in this paper, beside of computing the total gaindex for some graphs, its some properties especially lower and upper bounds are obtained.

the center (periphery) of a graph is the set of vertices with minimum (maximum)eccentricity. in this paper, the structure of centers and peripheries of some classes ofcomposite graphs are determined. the relations between eccentricity, radius and diameterof such composite graphs are also investigated. as an application we determinethe center and periphery of some chemical graphs such as nanotor...

we study the set of all determinants of adjacency matrices of graphs with a given number of vertices. using brendan mckay's data base of small graphs, determinants of graphs with at most $9$ vertices are computed so that the number of non-isomorphic graphs with given vertices whose determinants are all equal to a number is exhibited in a table. using an idea of m. newman, it is proved that if $...

mean labelings are a type of additive vertex labeling. this labeling assigns non-negative integers to the vertices of a graph in such a way that all edge-weights are different, where the weight of an edge is defined as the mean of the end-vertex labels rounded up to the nearest integer. in this paper we focus on mean labelings of some graphs that are the result of the corona operation. in parti...

the edge tenacity te(g) of a graph g is dened as:te(g) = min {[|x|+τ(g-x)]/[ω(g-x)-1]|x ⊆ e(g) and ω(g-x) > 1} where the minimum is taken over every edge-cutset x that separates g into ω(g - x) components, and by τ(g - x) we denote the order of a largest component of g. the objective of this paper is to determine this quantity for split graphs. let g = (z; i; e) be a noncomplete connected spli...

the energy of a graph is equal to the sum of the absolute values of its eigenvalues. two graphs of the same order are said to be equienergetic if their energies are equal. we point out the following two open problems for equienergetic graphs. (1) although it is known that there are numerous pairs of equienergetic, non-cospectral trees, it is not known how to systematically construct any such pa...

let $g=(v, e)$ be a graph. by emph{directional labeling (ord-labeling)} of an edge $x=uv$ of $g$ by an ordered $n$-tuple$(a_1,a_2,...,a_n)$, we mean a labeling of the edge $x$ such thatwe consider the label on $uv$ as $(a_1,a_2,...,a_n)$ in thedirection from $u$ to $v$, and the label on $x$ as$(a_{n},a_{n-1},...,a_1)$ in the direction from $v$ to $u$. inthis paper, we study graphs, called emph{...