OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
a(n) (n>=1) is the first Zagreb index of the triple-layered naphthalenophane G(n,n,n) having n hexagons in each layer. The first Zagreb index of a simple connected graph is the sum of the squared degrees of its vertices. Alternately, it is the sum of the degree sums d(i)+d(j) over all edges ij of the graph. The pictorial definition of G(p,q,r) can be viewed in the E. Flapan references.
The M-polynomial of the triple layered naphthalenophane G(p,q,r) is M(G(p,q,r),x,y) = 8*x^2*y^2 + 4*(p + q + r + 2)*x^2*y^3 + (p + q + r - 1)*x^3*y^3 (p, q, r>=1).
REFERENCES
Erica Flapan, When Topology Meets Chemistry, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2000.
LINKS
E. Deutsch and Sandi Klavzar, M-polynomial and degree-based topological indices, Iranian J. Math. Chemistry, 6, No. 2, 2015, 93-102.
Erica Flapan and Brian Forcum, Intrinsic chirality of triple-layered naphthalenophane and related graphs, J. Math. Chemistry, 24, 1998, 379-388.
I. Gutman and K. C. Das, The first Zagreb index 30 years after, MATCH Commun. Math. Comput. Chem. 50, 2004, 83-92.
Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (2,-1).
FORMULA
G.f.: 6*(11 + 2*x)/(1 - x)^2.
a(n) = 6*A269100(n).
MAPLE
seq(78*n+66, n = 0..45);
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Emeric Deutsch, Nov 13 2016
STATUS
approved