Topological indices are mathematical descriptors used in the field of chemistry to characterize the topological structure of chemical compounds. The Randić index (), the geometric–arithmetic index (), and the arithmetic–geometric index () represent three widely recognized topological indices. In most scenarios, the properties of and exhibit opposing tendencies. Furthermore, it is observed that, and for any given graph . Our focus is thus directed towards investigating the gaps between and , as well as and . We find that the invariants and correlate well with some molecular properties. Numerous upper and lower bounds for the quantities and are computed for general graphs, bipartite graphs, chemical graphs, trees, and chemical trees, in terms of graph order, with an emphasis on characterizing extremal graphs.
Given a graph a subset of vertices is called a maximum dissociation set of if it induces a subgraph with vertex degree at most 1, and the subset has maximum cardinality. The cardinality of a maximum dissociation set is called the dissociation number of . The adjacency matrix and the degree diagonal matrix of are denoted by and respectively. In 2017, Nikiforov proposed the -matrix: where The largest eigenvalue of this novel matrix is called the -index of In this paper, we firstly determine the connected graph (resp. bipartite graph, tree) having the largest -index over all connected graphs (resp. bipartite graphs, trees) with fixed order and dissociation number. Secondly, we describe the structure of all the -vertex graphs having the minimum -index with dissociation number , where Finally, we identify all the connected -vertex graphs with dissociation number having the minimum -index.
A graph has the strong parity property if for every subset with even, has a spanning subgraph satisfying , (mod 2) for any , and (mod 2) for any . In this paper, we give a spectral radius condition to guarantee that a connected graph has the strong parity property.
In this paper, we provide an efficient algorithm to construct almost optimal -superimposed codes with runlength constraints. A -superimposed code of length is a binary matrix such that any two 1’s in each column are separated by a run of at least 0’s, and such that for any column and any other columns, there exists a row where has 1 and all the remaining columns have 0. These combinatorial structures were introduced by Agarwal et al. (2020), in the context of Non-Adaptive Group Testing algorithms with runlength constraints.
By using Moser and Tardos’ constructive version of the Lovász Local Lemma, we provide an efficient randomized Las Vegas algorithm of complexity for the construction of -superimposed codes of length . We also show that the length of our codes is shorter, for sufficiently large, than that of the codes whose existence was proved in Agarwal et al. (2020).
A bisection of a graph is a bipartition of its vertex set in which the two parts differ in size by at most 1, and its size is the number of edges which across the two parts. Let be a graph with vertices, edges and degree sequence . Motivated by a few classical results on Max-Cut of graphs, Lin and Zeng proved that if is -free and has a perfect matching, then has a bisection of size at least , and conjectured the same bound holds for -free graphs with perfect matchings. In this paper, we confirm the conjecture under the additional condition that is -free.
A bipartite graph is two-disjoint-cycle-cover edge -bipancyclic if, for any vertex-disjoint edges and in and any even integer satisfying , there exist vertex-disjoint cycles and such that , , and . In this paper, we prove that the -star graph is two-disjoint-cycle-cover edge -bipancyclic for , and thus it is two-disjoint-cycle-cover vertex -bipancyclic for . Additionally, it is examined that is two-disjoint-cycle-cover -bipancyclic for .
The Graph Minor Theorem of Robertson and Seymour implies a finite set of obstructions for any minor closed graph property. We show that there are only three obstructions to knotless embedding of size 23, which is far fewer than the 92 of size 22 and the hundreds known to exist at larger sizes. We describe several other topological properties whose obstruction set demonstrates a similar dip at small size. For order ten graphs, we classify the 35 obstructions to knotless embedding and the 49 maximal knotless graphs.
The inverse sum indeg () index has attracted more and more attentions, because of its significant applications in chemistry. A basic problem in the study of this topological index is the characterization trees with maximal value. Let be such a tree of order . Recently, Lin et al. (2022) claimed that has no vertices of degree 2. However, errors were found in their proofs. Since this result is quite important, we give a correction to the proof. Furthermore, we extend the result by proving that has no vertices of degree 2 or 3 if .
An edge-coloring of a graph is injective if for any two distinct edges and , the colors of and are distinct if they are at distance 2 in or in a common triangle. The injective chromatic index of , , is the minimum number of colors needed for an injective edge-coloring of . In this paper, we prove that if is graph with and maximum average degree is less than (resp. , ), then (resp. 7, 8).