On Degree-Based Topological Indices of Symmetric Chemical Structures

Abstract

A Topological index also known as connectivity index is a type of a molecular descriptor that is calculated based on the molecular graph of a chemical compound. Topological indices are numerical parameters of a graph which characterize its topology and are usually graph invariant. In QSAR/QSPR study, physico-chemical properties and topological indices such as Randić, atom-bond connectivity (ABC) and geometric-arithmetic (GA) index are used to predict the bioactivity of chemical compounds. Graph theory has found a considerable use in this area of research. In this paper, we study HDCN1(m,n) and HDCN2(m,n) of dimension m , n and derive analytical closed results of general Randić index R α ( G ) for different values of α . We also compute the general first Zagreb, ABC, GA, A B C 4 and G A 5 indices for these Hex derived cage networks for the first time and give closed formulas of these degree-based indices.