On the Wiener-like root-indices of graphs

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Main Authors: Brezovnik, Simon, Dehmer, Matthias, Tratnik, Niko, Pleteršek, Petra Žigert
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author Brezovnik, Simon
Dehmer, Matthias
Tratnik, Niko
Pleteršek, Petra Žigert
author_facet Brezovnik, Simon
Dehmer, Matthias
Tratnik, Niko
Pleteršek, Petra Žigert
contents In this paper, we examine roots of graph polynomials where those roots can be considered as structural graph measures. More precisely, we prove analytical results for the roots of certain modified graph polynomials and also discuss numerical results. As polynomials, we use, e.g., the Hosoya, the Schultz, and the Gutman polynomial which belong to an interesting family of degree-distance-based graph polynomials; they constitute so-called counting polynomials with non-negative integers as coefficients and the roots of their modified versions have been used to characterize the topology of graphs. Our results can be applied for the quantitative characterization of graphs. Besides analytical results, we also investigate other properties of those measures such as their degeneracy which is an undesired aspect of graph measures. It turns out that the measures representing roots of graph polynomials possess high discrimination power on exhaustively generated trees, which outperforms standard versions of these indices. Furthermore, a new measure is introduced that allows us to compare different topological indices in terms of structure sensitivity and abruptness.
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spellingShingle On the Wiener-like root-indices of graphs
Brezovnik, Simon
Dehmer, Matthias
Tratnik, Niko
Pleteršek, Petra Žigert
Combinatorics
05C09 05C31 05C12 05C92 92E10 40A05
In this paper, we examine roots of graph polynomials where those roots can be considered as structural graph measures. More precisely, we prove analytical results for the roots of certain modified graph polynomials and also discuss numerical results. As polynomials, we use, e.g., the Hosoya, the Schultz, and the Gutman polynomial which belong to an interesting family of degree-distance-based graph polynomials; they constitute so-called counting polynomials with non-negative integers as coefficients and the roots of their modified versions have been used to characterize the topology of graphs. Our results can be applied for the quantitative characterization of graphs. Besides analytical results, we also investigate other properties of those measures such as their degeneracy which is an undesired aspect of graph measures. It turns out that the measures representing roots of graph polynomials possess high discrimination power on exhaustively generated trees, which outperforms standard versions of these indices. Furthermore, a new measure is introduced that allows us to compare different topological indices in terms of structure sensitivity and abruptness.
title On the Wiener-like root-indices of graphs
topic Combinatorics
05C09 05C31 05C12 05C92 92E10 40A05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05513