Recently, a novel topological index, Sombor index, was introduced by Gutman, defined as $SO(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}\sqrt{d_{u}^{2}+d_{v}^{2}}$, where $d_{u}$ denotes the degree of vertex $u$. In this paper, we first determine the maximum Sombor index among cacti with $n$ vertices and $t$ cycles, then determine the maximum Sombor index among cacti with perfect matchings. We also characterize corresponding maximum cacti.
The Sombor index of a graph $G$ was recently introduced by Gutman from the geometric point of view, defined as $SO(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}\sqrt{d(u)^2+d(v)^2}$, where $d(u)$ is the degree of a vertex $u$. For two real numbers $α$ and $β$, the $α$-Sombor index and general Sombor index of $G$ are two generalized forms of the Sombor index defined as $SO_α(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}(d(u)^α+d(v)^α)^{1/α}$ and $SO_α(G;β)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}(d(u)^α+d(v)^α)^β$, respectively. A $k$-polygonal cactus is a connected graph in which every block is a cycle of length $k$. In this paper, we establish a lower bound on $α$…
In this work we obtain new lower and upper optimal bounds of general Sombor indices. Specifically, we have inequalities for these indices relating them with other indices: the first Zagreb index, the forgotten index and the first variable Zagreb index. Finally, we solve some extremal problems for general Sombor indices.
Sombor index is a novel topological index, which was introduced by Gutman and defined for a graph $G$ as $SO(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}\sqrt{d_{u}^{2}+d_{v}^{2}}$, where $d_{u}=d_{G}(u)$ denotes the degree of vertex $u$ in graph $G$. Extremal problems on the Sombor index for trees with a given diameter has been considered by Chen et al. [H. Chen, W. Li, J. Wang, Extremal values on the Sombor index of trees, MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 87 (2022) 23--49] and Li et al. [S. Li, Z. Wang, M. Zhang, On the extremal Sombor index of trees with a given diameter, Appl. Math. Comput. 416 (2022) 126…
Let $G=(V, E)$ be a simple graph with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$. The Sombor index of the graph $G$ is a degree-based topological index, defined as $$SO(G)=\sum_{uv \in E}\sqrt{d(u)^2+d(v)^2},$$ in which $d(x)$ is the degree of the vertex $x \in V$ for $x=u, v$. In this paper, we characterize the extremal trees with a given degree sequence that maximizes the Sombor index.
A new geometric background of graph invariants was introduced by Gutman, of which the simplest is the second Sombor index $SO_2$, defined as $SO_2=SO_2(G)=\sum_{uv\in E}\frac{|d^2_G(u)-d^2_G(v)|}{d^2_G(u)+d^2_G(v)}$, where $G = (V, E)$ is a simple graph and $d_G(v)$ denotes the degree of $v$ in $G$. In this paper, the chemical applicability of the second Sombor index is investigated and it is shown that the the second Sombor index is useful in predicting physicochemical properties with high accuracy compared to some well-established and often used indices. Also, we obtain a bound for the secon…
The vertex PI index $PI(G) = \sum_{xy \in E(G)} [n_{xy}(x) + n_{xy}(y)]$ is a distance-based molecular structure descriptor, where $n_{xy}(x)$ denotes the number of vertices which are closer to the vertex $x$ than to the vertex $y$ and which has been the considerable research in computational chemistry dating back to Harold Wiener in 1947. A connected graph is a cactus if any two of its cycles have at most one common vertex. In this paper, we completely determine the extremal graphs with the largest and smallest vertex PI indices among all the cacti. As a consequence, we obtain the sharp bound…
For a simple connected graph $G=(V,E)$, let $d(u)$ be the degree of the vertex $u$ of $G$. The general Sombor index of $G$ is defined as $$SO_α(G)=\sum_{uv\in E} \left[d(u)^2+d(v)^2\right]^α$$ where $SO(G)=SO_{0.5}(G)$ is the recently invented Sombor index. In this paper, we show that in the class of connected graphs with a fixed degree sequence (for which the minimum degree being equal to one), there exists a special extremal $BFS$-graph with minimum general Sombor index for $0<α<1$ (resp. maximum general Sombor index for either $α>1$ or $α<0$). Moreover, for any given tree, unicyclic, and bi…
The general Sombor index of $G$ is defined as $SO_α(G)= \sum_{uv\in G}\left(d^2_{G}(u)+d^2_{G}(v)\right)^α$. For $0<α<1$, we have the upper bound of $SO_α(G)$ on unicyclic graphs with a fixed diameter, and the extremal graph is also characterized.
Let $G$ be a connected graph. The edge revised Szeged index of $G$ is defined as $Sz^{\ast}_{e}(G)=\sum\limits_{e=uv\in E(G)}(m_{u}(e|G)+\frac{m_{0}(e|G)}{2})(m_{v}(e|G)+\frac{m_{0}(e|G)}{2})$, where $m_{u}(e|G)$ (resp., $m_{v}(e|G)$) is the number of edges whose distance to vertex $u$ (resp., $v$) is smaller than the distance to vertex $v$ (resp., $u$), and $m_{0}(e|G)$ is the number of edges equidistant from both ends of $e$. In this paper, we give the minimal and the second minimal edge revised Szeged index of cacti with order $n$ and $k$ cycles, and all the graphs that achieve the minimal …
Let $G=(V(G),E(G))$ be a graph and $d(v)$ be the degree of the vertex $v\in V(G)$. The exponential reduced Sombor index of $G$, denoted by $e^{SO_{red}}(G)$, is defined as $$e^{SO_{red}}(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}e^{\sqrt{(d(u)-1)^2+(d(v)-1)^2}}.$$ We obtain a characterization of extremal trees with the maximal exponential reduced Sombor index among all chemical trees of order $n$. This result shows the conjecture on the exponential reduced Sombor index proposed by Liu, You, Tang and Liu [On the reduced Sombor index and its applications, MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 86 (2021) 729--753] is negat…
Let $d_v$ be the degree of the vertex $v$ in a connected graph $G$. The first Banhatti-Sombor index of $G$ is defined as $BSO(G) =\sum_{uv\in E(G)}\sqrt{\frac{1}{d^2_u}+\frac{1}{d^2_v}}$, which is a new vertex-degree-based topological index introduced by Kulli. In this paper, the mathematical relations between the first Banhatti-Sombor index and some other well-known vertex-degree-based topological indices are established. In addition, the trees extremal with respect to the first Banhatti-Sombor index on trees and chemical trees are characterized, respectively.
Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph with vertex set $V(G)=\{v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n\}$ and edge set $E(G)$. The Sombor matrix $\mathcal{S}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined so that its $(i,j)$-entry is equal to $\sqrt{d_i^2+d_j^2}$ if the vertices $v_i$ and $v_j$ are adjacent, and zero otherwise, where $d_i$ denotes the degree of vertex $v_i$ in $G$. In this paper, lower and upper bounds on the spectral radius, energy and Estrada index of the Sombor matrix of graphs are obtained, and the respective extremal graphs are characterized.
The edge Szeged index and edge-vertex Szeged index of a graph are defined as $Sz_{e}(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)}m_{u}(uv|G)m_{v}(uv|G)$ and $Sz_{ev}(G)=\frac{1}{2} \sum\limits_{uv \in E(G)}[n_{u}(uv|G)m_{v}(uv|G)+n_{v}(uv|G)m_{u}(uv|G)],$ respectively, where $m_{u}(uv|G)$ (resp., $m_{v}(uv|G)$) is the number of edges whose distance to vertex $u$ (resp., $v$) is smaller than the distance to vertex $v$ (resp., $u$), and $n_{u}(uv|G)$ (resp., $n_{v}(uv|G)$) is the number of vertices whose distance to vertex $u$ (resp., $v$) is smaller than the distance to vertex $v$ (resp., $u$), respectively. A …
Introduced by Gutman in 2021, the Sombor index is a novel graph-theoretic topological descriptor possessing potential applications in the modeling of thermodynamic properties of compounds. Let G^k_n be the set of all n-vertex connected graphs with k cut-vertices. In this paper, we present minimum Sombor indices of graphs in G^k_n. The corresponding extremal graphs have been characterized as well.
The concept of resistance distance was first proposed by Klein and Randić. The Kirchhoff index $Kf(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of resistance distance between all pairs of vertices in $G$. A connected graph $G$ is called a cactus if each block of $G$ is either an edge or a cycle. Let $Cat(n;t)$ be the set of connected cacti possessing $n$ vertices and $t$ cycles, where $0\leq t \leq \lfloor\frac{n-1}{2}\rfloor$. In this paper, the maximum kirchhoff index of cacti are characterized, as well as the corresponding extremal graph.
The edge-Wiener index $W_e(G)$ of a connected graph $G$ is the sum of distances between all pairs of edges of $G$. A connected graph $G$ is said to be a cactus if each of its blocks is either a cycle or an edge. Let $\mathcal{G}_{n,t}$ denote the class of all cacti with $n$ vertices and $t$ cycles. In this paper, the upper bound and lower bound on the edge-Wiener index of graphs in $\mathcal{G}_{n,t}$ are identified and the corresponding extremal graphs are characterized.
Let $\prod(G)$ be Multiplicative Zagreb index of a graph G. A connected graph is a cactus graph if and only if any two of its cycles have at most one vertex in common, which has been the interest of researchers in the filed of material chemistry and graph theory. In this paper, we use a new tool to the obtain upper and lower bounds of $\prod(G)$ for all cactus graphs and characterize the corresponding extremal graphs.
Vertex-degree-based topological indices have recently gained a lot of attention from mathematical chemists. One such index that we focus on in this paper is called Sombor index. After its definition in late 2020, the Sombor index was quickly recognized as a valuable research topic. In this paper we partially answer the open question of finding the extremal trees with respect to this index for a fixed degree sequence. Particularly we focus on the lower bound and proceed to show that greedy tree minimizes the Sombor index for a given degree sequence.
Various topological indices, based on the distances between the vertices of a graph, are widely used in theoretical chemistry. The degree resistance distance of a graph $G$ is defined as ${D_R}(G) = \sum\limits_{\{u,v\} \subseteq V(G)} {[d(u) + d(v)]R(u,v)},$ where $d(u)$ is the degree of the vertex $u,$ and $R(u, v)$ the resistance distance between the vertices $u$ and $v.$ A graph $G$ is called a cactus if each block of $G$ is either an edge or a cycle. In this paper, we completely characterize the extremal cacti having the maximum degree resistance distance among all cacti with $n$ vertices…
For a graph $G=(V,E)$ and $v_{i}\in V$, denote by $d_{i}$ the degree of vertex $v_{i}$. Let $f(x, y)>0$ be a real symmetric function in $x$ and $y$. The weighted adjacency matrix $A_{f}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a square matrix, where the $(i,j)$-entry is equal to $\displaystyle f(d_{i}, d_{j})$ if the vertices $v_{i}$ and $v_{j}$ are adjacent and 0 otherwise. Li and Wang \cite{U9} tried to unify methods to study spectral radius of weighted adjacency matrices of graphs weighted by various topological indices. If $\displaystyle f'_{x}(x, y)\geq0$ and $\displaystyle f''_{x}(x, y)\geq0$, then $\displ…
