Stijn Cambie , Ervin Győri , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , James Tuite
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Abstract
The Wiener index of a (hyper)graph is calculated by summing up the distances between all pairs of vertices. We determine the maximum possible Wiener index of a connected n-vertex k-uniform hypergraph and characterize all hypergraphs attaining the maximum Wiener index for every n and k.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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