A unified approach to bounds for topological indices on trees and applications Articles uri icon

publication date

  • September 2019

start page

  • 679

end page

  • 698

issue

  • 3

volume

  • 82

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0340-6253

abstract

  • The aim of this paper is to use a unified approach in order to obtain new inequalities for a large family of topological indices restricted to trees and to characterizethe set of extremal trees with respect to them. Our main results provide upperand lower bounds for a large class of topological indices on trees, fixing or not themaximum degree or the number of pendant vertices. This class includes the variablefirst Zagreb, the multiplicative second Zagreb, the Narumi-Katayama and the sumlordeg indices. In particular, our results on the sum lordeg index partially solve anopen problem on this index.

subjects

  • Mathematics