the first extended zeroth-order connectivity index of a graph   g is defined as 0 1/2 1 ( ) ( ) ,   v   v v g      g d      where   v   (g) is the vertex set of g, and v d is the sum of degrees of neighbors of vertex v in g. we give a sharp lower bound for the first extended zeroth-order connectivity index of trees with given numbers of vertices and pendant vertices,...

the reverse degree distance of a connected graph $g$ is defined in discrete mathematical chemistry as [ r (g)=2(n-1)md-sum_{uin v(g)}d_g(u)d_g(u), ] where $n$, $m$ and $d$ are the number of vertices, the number of edges and the diameter of $g$, respectively, $d_g(u)$ is the degree of vertex $u$, $d_g(u)$ is the sum of distance between vertex $u$ and all other vertices of $g$, and $v(g)$ is the ...

Let G be a simple connected graph. The terminal distance matrix of G is the distance matrix between all pendant vertices of G. In this paper, we introduce some general transformations that increase the terminal distance spectral radius of a connected graph and characterize the extremal trees with respect to the terminal distance spectral radius among all trees with a fixed number of pendant ver...

The reverse degree distance of a connected graph $G$ is defined in discrete mathematical chemistry as [ r (G)=2(n-1)md-sum_{uin V(G)}d_G(u)D_G(u), ] where $n$, $m$ and $d$ are the number of vertices, the number of edges and the diameter of $G$, respectively, $d_G(u)$ is the degree of vertex $u$, $D_G(u)$ is the sum of distance between vertex $u$ and all other vertices of $G$, and $V(G)$ is the...

We consider the colorings of the edges of a multigraph in such a way that every non-pendant vertex is incident to at least two edges of the same color. The maximum number of colors that can be used in such colorings is the upper chromatic index of a multigraph G, denoted by χ̄(G). We prove that if a multigraph G has n vertices, m edges, p pendant vertices and maximum c disjoint cycles, then χ̄(G)...

In this paper, we determine graphs with the largest spectral radius among all the unicyclic and all the bicyclic graphs with n vertices and k pendant vertices, respectively. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AMS classification: 05C50