Degree distance of unicyclic graphs

Abstract

The degree distance of a connected graph G with vertex set V(G) is defined as D'(G)= ?u?V (G) dG (u)DG (u), where dG (u) denotes the degree of vertex u and DG (u) denotes the sum of distances between u and all vertices of G. We determine the maximum degree distance of n-vertex unicyclic graphs with given maximum degree, and the first seven maximum degree distances of n-vertex unicyclic graphs for n ? 6.