A note on the entropy of graphs

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Ministry of Education, Organization for Education and Training, Tehran, I. R. Iran

Abstract

A useful tool for investigation various problems in mathematical chemistry and  computational physics is graph entropy.  In this paper, we introduce a new version of graph entropy  and  then we determine it for some classes of graphs.

Graphical Abstract

A note on the entropy of graphs

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Volume 7, Issue 2
March 2022
Pages 113-117
  • Receive Date: 26 April 2022
  • Revise Date: 07 May 2022
  • Accept Date: 19 May 2022
  • Publish Date: 01 June 2022