{"title":"The Average Size of Independent Sets in Unicyclic Graphs","authors":"Zuwen Luo, Kexiang Xu, A. Cevik, I. Gutman","doi":"10.47443/cm.2022.051","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The average size of independent sets of a graph ( avi ) is considered. It can be viewed as the logarithmic derivative of the independence polynomial at 1 . Lower and upper bounds on avi for unicyclic graphs of a given order are determined, and the respective extremal graphs are given. The unicyclic graphs that maximize (minimize) avi coincide with those that maximize (minimize, respectively) the number of independent sets.","PeriodicalId":48938,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Discrete Mathematics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contributions To Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47443/cm.2022.051","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The average size of independent sets of a graph ( avi ) is considered. It can be viewed as the logarithmic derivative of the independence polynomial at 1 . Lower and upper bounds on avi for unicyclic graphs of a given order are determined, and the respective extremal graphs are given. The unicyclic graphs that maximize (minimize) avi coincide with those that maximize (minimize, respectively) the number of independent sets.
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Contributions to Discrete Mathematics (ISSN 1715-0868) is a refereed e-journal dedicated to publishing significant results in a number of areas of pure and applied mathematics. Based at the University of Calgary, Canada, CDM is free for both readers and authors, edited and published online and will be mirrored at the European Mathematical Information Service and the National Library of Canada.