The Wiener index of vertex colorings

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Main Authors: Bardenova, Viktoriya, Bushaw, Neal, Cody, Brent, Fay, Paul, Tennant, Maya
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Published: 2025
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author Bardenova, Viktoriya
Bushaw, Neal
Cody, Brent
Fay, Paul
Tennant, Maya
author_facet Bardenova, Viktoriya
Bushaw, Neal
Cody, Brent
Fay, Paul
Tennant, Maya
contents The Wiener index of a vertex coloring of a graph is defined to be the sum of all pairwise geodesic distances between vertices of the same color. We provide characterizations of vertex colorings of paths and cycles whose Wiener index is as large as possible over various natural collections. Along the way we establish a connection between the majorization order on tuples of integers and the Wiener index of vertex colorings on paths and cycles.
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spellingShingle The Wiener index of vertex colorings
Bardenova, Viktoriya
Bushaw, Neal
Cody, Brent
Fay, Paul
Tennant, Maya
Combinatorics
The Wiener index of a vertex coloring of a graph is defined to be the sum of all pairwise geodesic distances between vertices of the same color. We provide characterizations of vertex colorings of paths and cycles whose Wiener index is as large as possible over various natural collections. Along the way we establish a connection between the majorization order on tuples of integers and the Wiener index of vertex colorings on paths and cycles.
title The Wiener index of vertex colorings
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18920