PUBLICATIONS DE L'INSTITUT MATHÉMATIQUE (BEOGRAD) (N.S.)Vol. 56(70), pp. 18--22 (1994)
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PUBLICATIONS DE L'INSTITUT MATHÉMATIQUE (BEOGRAD) (N.S.) Vol. 56(70), pp. 18--22 (1994) |
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On a graph invariant related to the sum of all distances in a graphA. Dobrynin and I. GutmanInstitute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia and Prirodno-matematicki fakultet, Kragujevac, YugoslaviaAbstract: Let $W(G)$ be the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices of a graph $G$. For an edge $e$ of $G$, connecting the vertices $u$ and $v$, the number $n_u(e)$ counts the vertices of $G$ that lie closer to $u$ than to $v$. In this paper we consider the graph invariant $W^\ast(G)=\sum_e n_u(e)n_v(e)$, defined for any connected graph $G$. According to a long-known result in the theory of graph distances, if $G$ is a tree then $W^\ast(G)=W(G)$. We establish a number of properties of the graph invariant $W^\ast$. Classification (MSC2000): 05C12 Full text of the article:
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