Open Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics (ODAM)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be two graph and \(P(A,z)\) and \(P(B,z)\) are their chromatic polynomial, respectively. The two graphs \(A\) and \(B\) are said to be chromatic equivalent denoted by \( A \sim B \) if \(P(A,z)=P(B,z)\). A graph \(A\) is said to be chromatically unique(or simply \(\chi\)- unique) if for any graph \(B\) such that \(A\sim B \), we have \(A\cong B\), that is \(A\) is isomorphic to \(B\). In this paper, the chromatic uniqueness of a new family of \(6\)-bridge graph \(\theta(r,r,s,s,t,u)\) where \(2\leq r\leq s \leq t\leq u\) is investigated.

In mathematical chemistry, a large number of topological indices are used to predict the physicochemical properties of compounds, especially in the study of quantitative structure-proerty relationship (QSPR).
However, many topological indices have almost the same predictive ability. In this paper, we focus on how to use fewer topological indices to predict the physicochemical properties of compounds through the QSPR analysis of connectivity indices of benzene hydrocarbons.

In this paper, we obtain the bounds for the Laplacian eigenvalues of a weighted graph using traces. Then, we find the bounds for the Kirchhoff and Laplacian Estrada indices of a weighted graph. Finally, we define the Laplacian energy of a weighted graph and get the upper bound for this energy.

A number of results on claw-free, paw-free graphs have been presented in the literature. Although the proofs of such results are elegant, sound and valid, it has gone unnoticed that all the results about claw-free, paw-free graphs in the literature are a consequence of a result by Olariu [1]. The note, apart from covering the aforementioned gap, also provides an alternate proof to a result by Faudree and Gould found in [2] in that, an unnoticed consequence resulted in the characterization of claw-free, paw-free graphs.

A graph \(G\) is said to be super edge-magic if there exists a bijective function \(f:V\left(G\right) \cup E\left(G\right)\rightarrow \left\{1, 2, \ldots , \left\vert V\left( G\right) \right\vert +\left\vert E\left( G\right) \right\vert \right\}\) such that \(f\left(V \left(G\right)\right) =\left\{1, 2, \ldots , \left\vert V\left( G\right) \right\vert \right\}\) and \(f\left(u\right) + f\left(v\right) + f\left(uv\right)\) is a constant for each \(uv\in E\left( G\right)\). In this paper, we study the super edge-magicness of graphs of order \(n\) with degree sequence \(s:4, 2, 2, \ldots, 2\). We also investigate the super edge-magic properties of certain families of graphs. This leads us to propose some open problems.

Coronoids are nice chemical structures that may be represented mathematically in the planar hexagonal lattice. They have been well-studied both for their chemical properties and also their enumerative aspects. Typical approaches to the latter type of questions often include classification and algorithmic techniques. Here we study one simple class of coronoids called hollow hexagons. Notably, hollow hexagons may be represented with a collection of partitions on the set \(\{2,3,4,6\}\). The hollow hexagons are used to classify another family of primitive coronoids, which we introduce here, called lattice path coronoids. Techniques from lattice path enumeration are used to count these newly-defined structures within equivalence classes indexed by enclosing hollow hexagons.

A \(2\)-noncrossing tree is a rooted tree drawn in the plane with its vertices (colored black or white) on the boundary of a circle such that the edges are line segments that do not intersect inside the circle and there is no black-black ascent in any path from the root. A rooted tree is said to be increasing if the labels of the vertices are increasing as one moves away from the root. In this paper, we use generating functions and bijections to enumerate \(2\)-noncrossing increasing trees by the number of blacks vertices and by root degree. Bijections with noncrossing trees, ternary trees, 2-plane trees, certain Dyck paths, and certain restricted lattice paths are established.

This paper introduces the new notion of total chromatic vertex stress of a graph. Results for certain tree families and other \(2\)-colorable graphs are presented. The notions of chromatically-stress stability and chromatically-stress regularity are also introduced. New research avenues are also proposed.

Coloring the arcs of biregular graphs was introduced with possible applications to industrial chemistry, molecular biology, cellular neuroscience, etc. Here, we deal with arc coloring in some non-bipartite graphs. In fact, for \(1<k\in\mathbb{Z}\), we find that the odd graph \(O_k\) has an arc factorization with colors \(0,1,\ldots,k\) such that the sum of colors of the two arcs of each edge equals \(k\). This is applied to analyzing the influence of such arc factorizations in recently constructed uniform 2-factors in \(O_k\) and in Hamilton cycles in \(O_k\) as well as in its double covering graph known as the middle-levels graph \(M_k\).

Let \(G\) be a graph with \(n\) vertices. The second Zagreb energy of graph \(G\) is defined as the sum of the absolute values of the eigenvalues of the second Zagreb matrix of graph \(G\). In this paper, we derive the relation between the second Zagreb matrix and the adjacency matrix of graph \(G\) and derive the new upper bound for the second Zagreb energy in the context of trace. We also derive the second Zagreb energy of \(m-\)splitting graph and \(m-\)shadow graph of a graph.