On extremal cacti with respect to the Szeged index
On extremal cacti with respect to the Szeged index
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DOI:
10.1016/j.amc.2017.03.036
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发表时间:
2017-09
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Shujing Wang
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Shujing Wang
The Szeged index of a graph G is defined as S z (G)=∑ e= u v∈ E n u (e) n v (e), where n u (e) and n v (e) are, respectively, the number of vertices of G lying closer to vertex u than to vertex v and the number of vertices of G lying closer to vertex v than to vertex u. A cactus is a graph in which any two cycles have at most one common vertex. Let C (n, k) denote the class of all cacti with order n and k cycles, and C n t denote the class of all cacti with order n and t pendant vertices. In this paper, a lower bound of the Szeged index for cacti of order n with k cycles is determined, and all the graphs that achieve the lower bound are identified. As well, the unique graph in C n t with minimum Szeged index is characterized.