On Topological Indices And Domination Numbers Of Graphs

Topological indices and dominating problems are popular topics in Graph Theory. There are various topological indices such as degree-based topological indices, distance-based topological indices and counting related topological indices et al. These topological indices correlate certain physicochemical properties such as boiling point, stability of chemical compounds. The concepts of domination number and independent domination number, introduced from the mid-1860s, are very fundamental in Graph Theory. In this dissertation, we provide new theoretical results on these two topics. We study k-trees and cactus graphs with the sharp upper and lower bounds of the degree-based topological indices(Multiplicative Zagreb indices). The extremal cacti with a distance-based topological index (PI index) are explored. Furthermore, we provide the extremal graphs with these corresponding topological indices. We establish and verify a proposed conjecture for the relationship between the domination number and independent domination number. The corresponding counterexamples and the graphs achieving the extremal bounds are given as well

Sharp bounds for the modified multiplicative zagreb indices of graphs with vertex connectivity at most k

© 2019, University of Nis. All rights reserved. Zagreb indices and their modified versions of a molecular graph originate from many practical problems such as two dimensional quantitative structure-activity (2D QSAR) and molecular chirality. Nowadays, they have become important invariants which can be used to characterize the properties of graphs from different aspects. Let Vkn (or Ekn respectively) be a set of graphs of n vertices with vertex connectivity (or edge connectivity respectively) at most k. In this paper, we explore some properties of the modified first and second multiplicative Zagreb indices of graphs in Vkn and Ekn. By using analytic and combinatorial tools, we obtain some sharp lower and upper bounds for these indices of graphs in Vkn and Ekn. In addition, the corresponding extremal graphs which attain the lower or upper bounds are characterized. Our results enrich outcomes on studying Zagreb indices and the methods developed in this paper may provide some new tools for investigating the values on modified multiplicative Zagreb indices of other classes of graphs

The bounds of vertex Padmakar-Ivan index on k-trees

© 2019 by the authors. The Padmakar-Ivan (PI) index is a distance-based topological index and a molecular structure descriptor, which is the sum of the number of vertices over all edges uv of a graph such that these vertices are not equidistant from u and v. In this paper, we explore the results of PI-indices from trees to recursively clustered trees, the k-trees. Exact sharp upper bounds of PI indices on k-trees are obtained by the recursive relationships, and the corresponding extremal graphs are given. In addition, we determine the PI-values on some classes of k-trees and compare them, and our results extend and enrich some known conclusions