General Randić index of unicyclic graphs with given girth and diameter

Abstract

We study the general Randić index of a graph [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] is the edge set of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are the degrees of vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively. For [Formula: see text], we present lower bounds on the general Randić index for unicyclic graphs of given diameter and girth, and unicyclic graphs of given diameter. Lower bounds on the classical Randić index and the second modified Zagreb index are corollaries of our results on the general Randić index.