Vertices x and y dominate a tournament T if for all vertices z 6 = x; y; either x beats z or y beats z. Let dom(T) be the graph on the vertices of T with edges between pairs of vertices that dominate T. We show dom(T) is either an odd cycle with possible pendant vertices or a forest of caterpillars. Since dom(T) is the complement of the competition graph of the tournament formed by reversing th...

In this paper, we study the signless Laplacian spectral radius of unicyclic graphs with prescribed number of pendant vertices or independence number. We also characterize the extremal graphs completely.

A caterpillar unicyclic graph is a unicyclic graph in which the removal of all pendant vertices makes it a cycle. In this paper, the unique caterpillar unicyclic graph with minimum algebraic connectivity among all caterpillar unicyclic graphs is determined.

The distinguishing number ∆(X) of a graph X is the least positive integer n for which there exists a function f : V (X) → {0, 1, 2, · · · , n−1} such that no nonidentity element of Aut(X) fixes (setwise) every inverse image f−1(k), k ∈ {0, 1, 2, · · · , n − 1}. All infinite, locally finite trees without pendant vertices are shown to be 2distinguishable. A proof is indicated that extends 2-disti...

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...

Recently, discrete and variable Adriatic indices have been introduced and it has been shown that the sum α -exdeg index is good predictor (when variable parameter is equal to 0.37 ) of the octanol-water partition coefficient for octane isomers. Here, we study mathematical properties of this descriptor. Namely, we analyze extremal graphs of this descriptor in the following classes: the class of ...