Ordering of bicyclic graphs by matching energy

Abstract

Let $G$ be a simple graph of order $n$ and $\mu_{1},\mu_{2},\ldots,\mu_{n}$ be the roots of its matching polynomial. The matching energy is defined as the sum $\sum^{n}_{i=1}|\mu_{i}|$, which was introduced by Gutman and Wagner in 2012. In this paper, the graphs with the first five smallest matching energies among all bicyclic graphs for order $n>5$ are determined.