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Wiener Index of Trees: Theory and Applications

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The Wiener index W is the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices of a (connected) graph as discussed by the authors, defined as the distance between all vertices in a graph.
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The Wiener index W is the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices of a (connected) graph. The paper outlines the results known for W of trees: methods for computation of W and combinatorial expressions for W for various classes of trees, the isomorphism–discriminating power of W, connections between W and the center and centroid of a tree, as well as between W and the Laplacian eigenvalues, results on the Wiener indices of the line graphs of trees, on trees extremal w.r.t. W, and on integers which cannot be Wiener indices of trees. A few conjectures and open problems are mentioned, as well as the applications of W in chemistry, communication theory and elsewhere.

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Equiseparability on Terminal Wiener Index

TL;DR: The properties of terminal Wiener index are explored, and the fact that there still exist pairs of trees and chemical trees which can not be distinguished by it is shown, to show that terminalWiener index is degenerative to some extent.
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The Wiener index of the zero-divisor graph of a finite commutative ring with unity

TL;DR: In this article , the authors derived a formula for the Wiener index of the zero-divisor graph Γ (R ) for R = Z n , the ring of integers modulo n.

Wiener index of generalized 4-stars and of their quadratic line graphs.

TL;DR: Several infinite families of trees are constructed which have a unique branching vertex of degree 4 and whose Wiener index equals theWiener index of their quadratic line graph.
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Wiener index of certain families of hexagonal chains

TL;DR: The Wiener index as discussed by the authors is a topological index of a molecule defined as the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices in the chemical graph representing the non-hydrogen atoms in the molecule.
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The Wiener index of unicyclic graphs given number of pendant vertices or cut vertices

TL;DR: In this article, the authors gave a condition to determine the graphs having the smallest Wiener index among all unicyclic graphs given number of pendant vertices, and also determined the graph with the smallest cut vertices.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey some of the many results known for Laplacian matrices, and present a survey of the most important results in the field of graph analysis.

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Bojan Mohar
TL;DR: A survey of known results about the spectrum of the Laplacian matrix of graphs with special emphasis on the second smallest Lapla-cian eigenvalue 2 and its relation to numerous graph invariants, including connectivity, expanding properties, isoperimetric number, maximum cut, independence number, genus, diameter, mean distance, and bandwidth-type parameters of a graph is given in this article.
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Mathematical concepts in organic chemistry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the topology of a graph as follows: 1.1 Topology in Chemistry, 2.2 Geometry, Symmetry, Topology, Graph Automorphisms, and Graph Topology.
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Distance in graphs

Fred Buckley, +1 more