On the Zagreb indices of overfull molecular graphs

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Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Kashan, Kashan, I. R. Iran

Abstract

Let G be a connected graph on n vertices. An overfull graph is a graph whose number of its edges is greater than Δ × [n/2], where Δ is the maximum degree of vertices in G. In this paper, we compute the Zagreb indices of overfull molecular graphs.

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On the Zagreb indices of overfull molecular graphs

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Volume 4, 1-2
June 2014
Pages 37-44
  • Receive Date: 04 January 2014
  • Revise Date: 10 April 2014
  • Accept Date: 10 May 2016
  • Publish Date: 01 June 2014