Date of Award
Spring 2020
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
Mathematics
First Advisor
Éva Czabarka
Second Advisor
László Székely
Abstract
The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of vertices. I provide asymptotic upper bounds and sharp lower bounds for the Wiener index of simple triangulations and quadrangulations with given connectivity. Additionally, I make conjectures for the extremal triangulations and quadrangulations which maximize the Wiener index based on computational evidence. If σ(v) denotes the arithmetic mean of the distances from v to all other vertices of G, then the remoteness and proximity of G are defined as the largest and smallest value of σ(v) over all vertices v of G, respectively. I give sharp upper bounds on the remoteness and asymptotic upper bounds on the proximity of simple triangulations and quadrangulations of given order and connectivity.
Recommended Citation
Olsen, T. V.(2020). Distance Related Graph Invariants in Triangulations and Quadrangulations of the Sphere. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5831