A Unified Approach to Extremal Graphs for ifferent Indices

Hongyan Lu1, Zhongxun Zhu1, Jing Luo1
1College of Mathematics and Statistics, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China

Abstract

In this paper, we first introduce a linear program on graphical invariants of a graph \(G\). As an application, we attain the extremal graphs with lower bounds on the first Zagreb index \(M_1(G)\), the second Zagreb index \(M_2(G)\), their multiplicative versions \(\Pi_1^*(G)\), \(\Pi_2(G)\), and the atom-bond connectivity index \(ABC(G)\), respectively.