An investigation of edge F-index on fuzzy graphs and application in molecular chemistry

Abstract

Abstract The molecular descriptors are a useful tool in the spectral graph, molecular chemistry and several fields of chemistry and mathematics. The edge F-index is proposed for fuzzy graphs (FGs) here. Bounds of this index are calculated for FGs. The FG has been investigated for a given set of vertices as having maximum edge F-index. Some relations of this index with the second Zagreb index and hyper-Zagreb index are established. For an isomorphic FGs, it is shown that the value of this index is the same. Bounds of this index for some FG operations are determined. Also, an application of the index in mathematical chemistry is studied. For this, 18 octane isomers and 67 alkanes are considered and analyzed the correlation between this index with some properties of the octane isomers and alkanes. From the correlation coefficient value, we have obtained this index is highly correlated with enthalpy of vaporization, standard enthalpy of vaporization, entropy, acentric factor and heat of vaporization and less correlated with heat capacity for octane isomers. Also, this index is correlated with critical pressure, critical temperature, molar refraction, molar volume and boiling point and is less correlated with surface tension and heat of vaporization for alkanes. But, this index is inadequate to determine the melting point of alkanes.

Keywords

• Fuzzy graph
• Topological index
• F-index
• Molecular graph