On extremal trees with respect to the $F$-index

Abstract

In a study on the structure--dependency of the total $\pi$-electron energy from 1972, Trinajstić and one of the present authors have shown that it depends on the sums ${\sum }_{v\in V}d(v{)}^2$ and ${\sum }_{v\in V}d(v{)}^3$, where $d(v)$ is the degree of a vertex $v$ of the underling molecular graph $G$. The first sum was later named {\it first Zagreb index} and over the years became one of the most investigated graph--based molecular structure descriptors. On the other hand, the second sum, except in very few works on the general first Zagreb index and the zeroth--order general Randić index, has been almost completely neglected. Recently, this second sum was named {\em forgotten index}, or shortly the $F$-{\em index}, and shown to have an exceptional applicative potential. In this paper we examine the trees extremal with respect to the $F$-index.

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