Ordering Tricyclic Connected Graphs Having Minimum Degree Distance

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Department of Mathematics‎, ‎Abbottabad University of Science and Technology‎, ‎Abbottabad‎, ‎KPK‎, ‎Pakistan

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‎Degree distance D'(G) is an important molecular descriptor which provides valuable insights into the connectivity and properties of molecular graphs‎, ‎making it a powerful tool in diverse areas of chemical graph theory‎. ‎This descriptor has attained much attention in the recent past for its broad range of applicability in different problems of chemical graph theory‎. ‎Ordering of graphs with certain parameters allows chemists to identify patterns and trends of different chemical compounds and as a result predict their reaction behavior accordingly‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎the first sixteen tricyclic graphs are presented which have minimum degree distances (in ascending order) if $n\ge31$.

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Iranian Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
Volume 16, Issue 3
September 2025
Pages 199-205

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