On the Wiener complexity and the Wiener index of fullerene graphs

Abstract

Fullerenes are molecules in the form of cage-like polyhedra, consisting solely of carbon atoms. Fullerene graphs are mathematical models of fullerene molecules. The transmission of a vertex $v$ of a graph is the sum of distances from $v$ to all the other vertices. The number of different vertex transmissions is called the Wiener complexity of a graph. Some calculation results on the Wiener complexity and the Wiener index of fullerene graphs of order $n \le 216$ are presented. Structure of graphs with the maximal Wiener complexity or the maximal Wiener index is discussed and formulas for the Wiener index of several families of graphs are obtained.