Mostar index and edge Mostar index of polymers

TL;DR

This paper introduces and analyzes the Mostar and edge Mostar indices, graph invariants useful in chemistry, specifically for polymer graphs constructed from connected units, and explores their properties in particular cases.

Contribution

The paper defines the Mostar and edge Mostar indices for polymer graphs and investigates their values in specific cases relevant to chemical structures.

Findings

Derived formulas for Mostar indices of polymer graphs

Identified properties of these indices in chemical graph models

Provided insights into the structure-property relationships in polymers

Abstract

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph and $e=uv\in E$. Define $n_u(e,G)$ be the number of vertices of $G$ closer to $u$ than to $v$. The number $n_v(e,G)$ can be defined in an analogous way. The Mostar index of $G$ is a new graph invariant defined as $Mo(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}|n_u(uv,G)-n_v(uv,G)|$. The edge version of Mostar index is defined as $Mo_e(G)=\sum_{e=uv\in E(G)} |m_u(e|G)-m_v(G|e)|$, where $m_u(e|G)$ and $m_v(e|G)$ are the number of edges of $G$ lying closer to vertex $u$ than to vertex $v$ and the number of edges of $G$ lying closer to vertex $v$ than to vertex $u$, respectively. Let $G$ be a connected graph constructed from pairwise disjoint connected graphs $G_1,\ldots ,G_k$ by selecting a vertex of $G_1$, a vertex of $G_2$, and identifying these two vertices. Then continue in this manner inductively. We say that $G$ is a polymer graph, obtained by point-attaching from monomer units $G_1,...,G_k$. In this paper, we consider some particular cases of these graphs that are of importance in chemistry and study their Mostar and edge Mostar indices.