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Keywords:
cut-vertex; distance; pendant vertex; unicyclic graph; Wiener index
Summary:
The Wiener index of a connected graph is defined as the sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of its vertices. We characterize the graphs which extremize the Wiener index among all graphs on $n$ vertices with $k$ pendant vertices. We also characterize the graph which minimizes the Wiener index over the graphs on $n$ vertices with $s$ cut-vertices.
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