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On the borderenergeticity of line graphs. (English) Zbl 1492.92158

Summary: A graph \(G\) of order \(n\) is borderenergetic if it has the same energy as the complete graph \(K_n\). In this paper, we obtain the result that for any connected graph \(G\), except for the five graphs (one of order 5, three of order 6 and one of order 10), the line graph \(L(G)\) of \(G\) is not borderenergetic. As a consequence, we get that if \(G\) is a borderenergetic graph, then the line graph \(L(G)\) of \(G\) is not borderenergetic. In addition, we observe a relation between the lower bound of the energy of the line graph \(L(G)\) of a borderenergetic graph \(G\) and the minimum degree \(\delta(G)\) of \(G\).

MSC:

92E10 Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.)
05C92 Chemical graph theory
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