Differences between Wiener and modified Wiener indices

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

Abstract

The Wiener index is the oldest topological index introduced by H. Wiener for anticipating the boiling point of Paraffin and some other alkenes. An algebraic approach for generalizing the Wiener index is proposed by Graovac and Pisanski for the first time. In this paper, we compute the difference between these topological indices for a class of fullerene graphs.

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Differences between Wiener and modified Wiener indices

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Volume 4, 1-2
June 2014
Pages 19-25
  • Receive Date: 30 September 2013
  • Revise Date: 26 January 2014
  • Accept Date: 23 May 2014
  • Publish Date: 01 June 2014