On a conjecture about the Szeged index

  • Authors:
  • M. Aouchiche;P. Hansen

  • Affiliations:
  • GERAD and HEC Montreal, Montreal, Qc, Canada;GERAD and HEC Montreal, Montreal, Qc, Canada and LIX, ícole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Khalifeh, Yousefi-Azari, Ashrafi and Wagner [M.K. Khalifeh, H. Yousefi-Azari, A.R. Ashrafi, S.G. Wagner, Some new results on distance-based graph invariants, European J. Combin. 30 (2009) 1149-1163] conjectured that for a connected graph G on n vertices and m edges with Szeged index Sz, Sz=mn^2/4 if and only if G is a regular bipartite graph. In this note, we disprove this conjecture and then prove a stronger result from which it follows that the equality holds if and only if G is a transmission-regular bipartite graph.