Eccentric connectivity index of fullerene graphs

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Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, 16785 – 136, I R. Iran

Abstract

The eccentric connectivity index of the molecular graph is defined as $\zeta^c(G)=\sum_{uv\in E}degG(u)ε(u)$ , where degG(x) denotes the degree of the vertex x in G and ε(u)=max{d(x,u) |x ε V(G)}. In this paper this polynomial is computed for an infinite class of fullerenes.

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Eccentric connectivity index of fullerene graphs

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Volume 2, 1-2
June 2012
Pages 21-27
  • Receive Date: 05 January 2012
  • Revise Date: 05 May 2012
  • Accept Date: 01 June 2012
  • Publish Date: 01 June 2012