The atom-bond connectivity (ABC) index, introduced by Estrada et al. in 1998, displays an excellent correlation with the formation heat of alkanes. We give upper bounds for this graph invariant using the number of vertices, the number of edges, the Randić connectivity indices, and the first Zagreb index. We determine the unique tree with the maximum ABC index among trees with given numbers of v...

The rst Zagreb index of a graph is equal to the sum of the square of the vertex degrees of the graph and the forgotten topological index (Findex) of a graph is de ned as the sum of cubes of the vertex degrees of the graph. These parameters have applications in chemistry and drug structures. For any xed integer d ≥ 2, the d-ary tree is a rooted tree in which each node has no more than d children...

Given a tree T = (V,E), the second Zagreb index of T is denoted by M2(T ) = ∑ uv∈E d(u)d(v) and the Wiener polarity index of T is equal to WP (T ) = ∑ uv∈E(d(u)−1)(d(v)−1). Let π = (d1, d2, ..., dn) and π′ = (d1, d2, ..., dn) be two different non-increasing tree degree sequences. We write π π′, if and only if ∑n i=1 di = ∑n i=1 d ′ i, and ∑j i=1 di ≤ ∑j i=1 d ′ i for all j = 1, 2, ..., n. Let Γ...

The F-index of a graph is defined as the sum of cubes of the vertex degrees of the graph which was introduced in 1972, in the same paper where the first and second Zagreb indices were introduced. In this paper we study the F-index of four operations on graphs which were introduced by Eliasi and Taeri [M. Eliasi, B. Taeri, Four new sums of graphs and their Wiener indices, Discrete Appl. Math.157...