Applied Mathematics
Vol.3 No.8(2012), Article ID:21477,4 pages DOI:10.4236/am.2012.38139

On Eccentric Connectivity Index and Polynomial of Thorn Graph

Nilanjan De

Department of Basic Science, Humanities and Social Science (Mathematics), Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India

Email: de.nilanjan@rediffmail.com

Received February 19, 2012; revised July 4, 2012; accepted July 12, 2012

Keywords: Ecentricity; Eccentric Connectivity Index; Eccentric Connectivity Polynomial; Thorn Graphs

ABSTRACT

The eccentric connectivity index based on degree and eccentricity of the vertices of a graph is a widely used graph invariant in mathematics. In this paper we present the explicit generalized expressions for the eccentric connectivity index and polynomial of the thorn graphs, and then consider some particular cases.

1. Introduction

A topological index, based on degree and eccentricity of a vertex of a graph, known as eccentric connectivity index, first appeared for structure-property and structureactivity studies of molecular graphs [1] and shown to give a high degree of predictability of pharmaceutical properties. Now for any simple connected graph G = with n vertices and m edges, the distance between the vertices vi and vj of, is equal to the length that is the number of edges of the shortest path connecting vi and vj [2]. Also for a given vertex vi of its eccentricity is the largest distance from vi to any other vertices of G [3-5]. The radius and diameter of the graph are respectively the smallest and largest eccentricity among all the vertices of G where as the average eccentricity of a graph is denoted by and is defined as

Analogues to Zagreb indices of a graph Vukičević and Graovac [6] introduced the Zagreb eccentricity indices and by replacing degree of the vertices by its eccentricity. The eccentric connectivity index of a graph G was proposed by Sharma, Goswami and Madan [1] and is defined as

where is the degree i.e. number of first neighbor of vi of. Compare to other topological indices as the eccentric connectivity index has been found to have a low degeneracy [7], it subject to a large number of chemical [3,4,7-9] and mathematical studies [10,11]. Similar to other topological polynomials the eccentric connectivity polynomial of a graph G is defined as [11]

so that, the connection between the eccentric connectivity polynomial and the eccentric connectivity index is given by

where is the first derivative of.

The concept of thorn graphs was proposed by Gutman [2] and different applications have been studied by many others. Let be an n-tuple on positive integers then the thorn graph of the parent graph G on n vertices is formed by attaching pi (),new vertices of degree one to each vertex vi of G. Various topological indices and polynomials such as wiener number [12,13], terminal Wiener index [14], modified Wiener index [15], altered Wiener index [16], Hosoya polynomial [17], Zagreb polynomial [18] and so on of the general and some particular thorn graphs and trees has already been studied.

In this paper we present the expressions of the eccentric connectivity index and polynomials of thorn graph in terms of its underlying parent graph and consider some special cases for which the number of thorns that is pendant edges attached to any vertex of the parent graph is a linear function of its degree and eccentricity.

2. Main Results

Theorem 1 For any simple connected graph G the and are related as

(1)

where G* is the thorn graph of G with parameters pi,.

Proof Let and be the vertex set of G and its thorn graph G* respectively, so that

and

where Vi are the set of degree one vertices attached to the vertices vi in G* and. Let the vertices of the set Vi are denoted by for j = 1, 2,···, pi and I =

1, 2,···, n. Thus where,.Then the degree of the vertices vi in G* are given by, for. Similarly the eccentricity of the vertices vi , in G* are given by, for and the eccentricity of the vertices vij are given by , for and. Then the eccentric connectivity index of G* is given by

Now since

and

we get the desired result (1).

Theorem 2 For any simple connected graph G, eccentric connectivity polynomial and are related as

(2)

Proof Since G* is the thorn graph obtained from G by attaching pi new pendent vertices to the vertex vi of G (), just analogues to Theorem 1 the eccentric connectivity polynomial of G* is given by

Now since

and

we get the desired result.

Corollary 1 Let G* is the thorn graph of G, with parameters, then

1)

2)

where is the average eccentricity of G.

Proof 1) If for then

and. Thus from (1) we get the result as desired.

2) Using the inequality between the arithmetic and geometric mean we have

(3)

Then and hence from (2) the desired result follows.

Corollary 2 If the parameter pi is equal to the degree of the corresponding ith vertex, then

1)

2)

where m is the number of edges of G.

Proof 1) If for then

and. Thus from (1) the desired result is obtained.

2) Similarly, as in this case, from (2) the required result follows.

Corollary 3 Let be any integer so that, and if G* is the thorn graph of G with parameters, then

1)

2).

Proof 1) If for then

and. Hence from (1) the desired result is obtained.

2) Since in this case as, applying (3)

we get the desired result from (2).

Corollary 4 If the parameter pi is equal to the eccentricity of the corresponding ith vertex, then

1)

2)

where and are Zagreb eccentricity index and polynomial of G.

Proof 1) If for then

and then from (1)

the desired result follows. Here is the Zagreb eccentricity index [6].

2) Again in this case since we get the desired result. Here

is the Zagreb eccentricity polynomial corresponding to, such that, where is the first derivative of.

Corollary 5 Let τ be any integer so that, and if G* is the thorn graph of G with parameters, then

1)

2)

Proof 1) Since in this case and

from (1) the desired result follows.

2) Similarly in this case since

the desired result follows from (2).

Corollary 6 If G* is the thorn graph obtained from G with parameters where a and b are integers such that then

1)

2)

Proof 1) If, then and so that from (1) the desired result follows.

2) Again to find eccentric connectivity polynomial for this case we have

Hence from (2) the desired result follows.

Note that the Corollary 1, 2 and 3 can be obtained from above assuming a = 0, b = t; a = 1, b = 0 and,.

Corollary 7 If G* is the thorn graph obtained from G with parameters where a and b are integers such that then

1)

2)

Proof 1) Since in this case, and

the desired result follows from (1).

2) Similarly using (3) as

the desired result follows from (2).

Note that the Corollary 1, 4 and 5 can be obtained from Corollary 7 assuming a = 0, b = t; a = 1, b = 0 and,.

Corollary 8 If G* is the thorn graph obtained from G with parameters where a, b and c are integers such that then

1)

2)

Proof 1) In this case, since

and

we get the desired result from (1).

2) Again since

the desired result follows from (2).

In all the above inequalities the equality holds when we differentiate it with respect to x and putting x = 1. Reader should note that the Corollary 6 and 7 can be obtained from Corollary 8 by putting b = 0, c = b and a = 0, b = a, c = b and hence all the previous Corollaries.

3. Conclusion

Using the relations derived above one can easily recursively obtained the eccentric connectivity index and polynomial for a particular type of thorn graph in terms of its parent graph i.e. the eccentric connectivity index and polynomial of a bigger graph is expressed in terms of a smaller graph. For example, using the relations (1) and (2) the eccentric connectivity index and polynomial of thorn cycle obtained from a cycle by adding pi(),new vertices of degree one to each vertex vi are given by

and

Similarly we can also find these results for other particular thorn graphs like thorn path, thorn star etc. Also note that all these results are true only when pi, for all, so these results can be extended to thorn graphs when some of pi = 0.

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