The harmonic index of a graph $G$, denoted by $H(G)$, is defined asthe sum of weights $2/[d(u)+d(v)]$ over all edges $uv$ of $G$, where$d(u)$ denotes the degree of a vertex $u$. Hu and Zhou [Y. Hu and X. Zhou, WSEAS Trans. Math. {bf 12} (2013) 716--726] proved that for any bicyclic graph $G$ of order $ngeq 4$, $H(G)le frac{n}{2}-frac{1}{15}$ and characterize all extremal bicyclic graphs.In this...

the hosoya index and the merrifield-simmons index are two types of graph invariants used in mathematical chemistry. in this paper, we give some formulas for computed these indices for some classes of corona product and link of two graphs. furthermore, we obtain exact formulas of hosoya and merrifield-simmons indices for the set of bicyclic graphs, caterpillars and dual star.

The nullity of a graph is the multiplicity of the eigenvalues zero in its spectrum. A signed graph is a graph with a sign attached to each of its edges. In this paper, we obtain the coefficient theorem of the characteristic polynomial of a signed graph, give two formulae on the nullity of signed graphs with cut-points. As applications of the above results, we investigate the nullity of the bicy...

Let ∆(G), ∆ for short, be the maximum degree of a graph G. In this paper, trees (resp., unicyclic graphs and bicyclic graphs), which attain the first and the second largest spectral radius with respect to the adjacency matrix in the class of trees (resp., unicyclic graphs and bicyclic graphs) with n vertices and the maximum degree ∆, where ∆ ≥ n+1 2 (resp., ∆ ≥ n 2 +1 and ∆ ≥ n+3 2 ) are determ...

Let ∆(G), ∆ for short, be the maximum degree of a graph G. In this paper, trees (resp., unicyclic graphs and bicyclic graphs), which attain the first and the second largest spectral radius with respect to the adjacency matrix in the class of trees (resp., unicyclic graphs and bicyclic graphs) with n vertices and the maximum degree ∆, where ∆ ≥ n+1 2 (resp., ∆ ≥ n 2 +1 and ∆ ≥ n+3 2 ) are determ...

Given a molecular graph G, the Hosoya index Z(G) of G is defined as the total number of the matchings of the graph. Let Bn denote the set of bicyclic graphs on n vertices. In this paper, the minimal, the second-, the third-, the fourth-, and the fifth-minimal Hosoya indices of bicyclic graphs in the set Bn are characterized.

In a certain class of graphs, a graph is called minimizing if the least eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix attains the minimum. A connected graph containing two or three cycles is called a bicyclic graph if its number of edges is equal to its number of vertices plus one. Let Gc 1,n and Gc 2,n be the classes of the connected graphs of order n whose complements are bicyclic with exactly two and t...

Given a graph and a vector defined on the graph, a quadratic form is defined on the graph depending on its edges. In order to minimize the quadratic form on trees or unicyclic graphs associated with signless Laplacian, the notion of basic edge set of a graph is introduced, and the behavior of the least eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvectors is investigated. Using these results a characte...

Given a graph and a vector defined on the graph, a quadratic form is defined on the graph depending on its edges. In order to minimize the quadratic form on trees or unicyclic graphs associated with signless Laplacian, the notion of basic edge set of a graph is introduced, and the behavior of the least eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvectors is investigated. Using these results a characte...

Bicyclic graphs are connected graphs in which the number of edges equals the number of vertices plus one. In this paper we determine the graph with the largest spectral radius among all bicyclic graphs with n vertices and diameter d. As an application, we give first three graphs among all bicyclic graphs on n vertices, ordered according to their spectral radii in decreasing order. © 2006 Elsevi...