Roughly speaking, the local ratio method works iteratively, and in each iteration it breaks a suitable structure (the local structure) to solve from the residual structure in that iteration. Typically the local structure is an instance that is very easy to solve. The main claim that is required is that the solution to the local structure can be patched with the solution from the next iteration,...

the edge szeged index is a new molecular structure descriptor equal to the sum of products mu(e)mv(e) over all edges e = uv of the molecular graph g, where mu(e) is the number of edges which its distance to vertex u is smaller than the distance to vertex v, and nv(e) is defined analogously. in this paper, the edge szeged index of one-pentagonal carbon nanocone cnc5[n] is computed for the first ...

We present two new deterministic algorithms for the Feedback Vertex Set problem parameterized by the solution size. We begin with a simple algorithm, which runs in O((2 + φ)) time, where φ < 1.619 is the golden ratio. It already surpasses the previously fastest O((1+ 2 √ 2))-time deterministic algorithm due to Cao et al. [SWAT 2010]. In our developments we follow the approach of Cao et al., how...

Let G be an undirected graph and P=[X1 , ..., Xn] be a partition of V(G). Denote by G P the graph which has vertex set [X1 , ..., Xn], edge set E, and is obtained from G by identifying vertices in each class Xi of the partition P. Given a conservative graph (G, w), we study vertex set partitions preserving conservativeness, i.e., those for which (G P, w) is also a conservative graph. We charact...

mathematical chemistry is a branch of theoretical chemistry for discussion and prediction of the molecular structure using mathematical methods without necessarily referring to quantum mechanics. in theoretical chemistry, distance-based molecular structure descriptors are used for modeling physical, pharmacologic, biological and other properties of chemical compounds. the wiener polarity index ...

A subset D of vertices of a graph G is a dominating set if for each u ∈ V (G) \ D, u is adjacent to somevertex v ∈ D. The domination number, γ(G) ofG, is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of G. A setD ⊆ V (G) is a total dominating set if for eachu ∈ V (G), u is adjacent to some vertex v ∈ D. Thetotal domination number, γt (G) of G, is theminimum cardinality of a total dominating set o...

Du, Zhou and Trinajstić [J. Math. Chem., 48, pp. 697–703, 2010] proved that in the set of n-vertex connected unicyclic graphs G with n ≥ 3, for –1 ≤ α < 0, the graph consisting of a triangle and n – 3 pendant vertices adjacent to the same vertex of this triangle is the unique graph with the minimum general sum-connectivity index. In this paper, using a graph transformation and several inequalit...

The revised edge-Szeged index of a connected graph $G$ is defined as Sze*(G)=∑e=uv∊E(G)( (mu(e|G)+(m0(e|G)/2)(mv(e|G)+(m0(e|G)/2) ), where mu(e|G), mv(e|G) and m0(e|G) are, respectively, the number of edges of G lying closer to vertex u than to vertex v, the number of ed...