Topological Indices of Certain Graphs

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In this paper we first consider and study certain edge-transitive connected graphs, such as the Hamming graphs, the Paley graphs and the Boolean lattice. Then as a consequence, we obtain the Wiener and the hyper-Wiener indices of these graphs.

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