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Solution to the minimum harmonic index of graphs with given minimum degree. (English) Zbl 1463.05067

Summary: The harmonic index of a graph \(G\) is defined as \(H(G)=\sum\limits_{uv\in E(G)} \frac{2}{d(u)+d(v)}\), where \(d(u)\) denotes the degree of a vertex \(u\) in \(G\). Let \(\mathcal{G}(n,k)\) be the set of simple \(n\)-vertex graphs with minimum degree at least \(k\). In this work we consider the problem of determining the minimum value of the harmonic index and the corresponding extremal graphs among \(\mathcal{G}(n,k)\). We solve the problem for each integer \(k\) \((1\leq k\leq n/2)\) and show the corresponding extremal graph is the complete split graph \(K_{k,n-k}^\ast\). This result together with our previous result which solve the problem for each integer \(k\) \((n/2 \leq k\leq n-1)\) give a complete solution of the problem.

MSC:

05C07 Vertex degrees
05C35 Extremal problems in graph theory
90C35 Programming involving graphs or networks
05C09 Graphical indices (Wiener index, Zagreb index, Randić index, etc.)
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