AbstractIn this work we show that among all n-vertex graphs with edge or vertex connectivity k, the graph G=Kk∨(K1+Kn−k−1), the join of Kk, the complete graph on k vertices, with the disjoint union of K1 and Kn−k−1, is the unique graph with maximum sum of squares of vertex degrees. This graph is also the unique n-vertex graph with edge or vertex connectivity k whose hyper-Wiener index is minimum