Nordhaus–Gaddum-Type Results for the Steiner Gutman Index of Graphs

Abstract

Building upon the notion of the Gutman index SGut(G), Mao and Das recently introduced the Steiner Gutman index by incorporating Steiner distance for a connected graph G. The Steiner Gutman k-index SGutk(G) of G is defined by SGutk(G)=∑S⊆V(G),|S|=k∏v∈SdegG(v)dG(S), in which dG(S) is the Steiner distance of S and degG(v) is the degree of v in G. In this paper, we derive new sharp upper and lower bounds on SGutk, and then investigate the Nordhaus-Gaddum-type results for the parameter SGutk. We obtain sharp upper and lower bounds of SGutk(G)+SGutk(G¯) and SGutk(G)·SGutk(G¯) for a connected graph G of order n, m edges, maximum degree Δ and minimum degree δ.