# Inverse problem for the Forgotten and the hyper Zagreb indices of trees

Document Type : Original paper

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1 Christ University

2 Department of Mathematics, Christ University, Bangalore, India

3 Department of Mathematics Uludag University, Gorukle 16059 Bursa-Turkey

Abstract

Let $G=(E(G),V(G))$ be a (molecular) graph with vertex set $V(G)$ and edge set $E(G)$. The forgotten Zagreb index and the hyper Zagreb index of G are defined by $F(G) = \sum_{u \in V(G)} d(u)^{3}$ and $HM(G) = \sum_{uv \in E(G)}(d(u)+d(v))^{2}$ where $d(u)$ and d(v) are the degrees of the vertices $u$ and $v$ in $G$, respectively. A recent problem called the inverse problem deals with the numerical realizations of topological indices. We see that there exist trees for all even positive integers with $F(G)>88$ and with $HM(G)>158$. Along with the result, we show that there exist no trees with $F(G) < 90$ and $HM(G) < 160$ with some exceptional even positive integers and hence characterize the forgotten Zagreb index and the hyper Zagreb index for trees.

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