Degree distance and Gutman index of two graph products

Authors

  • Shaban Sedghi Department of Mathematics, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran ROR
  • Nabi Shobe Department of Mathematics, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran ROR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13069/jacodesmath.729422

Keywords:

Degree distance, Adjacency matrix, Distance matrix, Complete product, Strong product

Abstract

The degree distance was introduced by Dobrynin, Kochetova and Gutman as a weighted version of the Wiener index. In this paper, we investigate the degree distance and Gutman index of complete, and strong product graphs by using the adjacency and distance matrices of a graph.

Received: 10 August 2017 | Accepted: 15 August 2019

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2020-05-07

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Sedghi, S., & Shobe, N. (2020). Degree distance and Gutman index of two graph products. Journal of Algebra Combinatorics Discrete Structures and Applications, 7(2), 121–140. https://doi.org/10.13069/jacodesmath.729422

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