Differences between Wiener and modified Wiener indices

Abstract

The Wiener index is the oldest topological index introduced by H. Wiener for anticipating the boiling point of Paraffin and some other alkenes. An algebraic approach for generalizing the Wiener index is proposed by Graovac and Pisanski for the first time. In this paper, we compute the difference between these topological indices for a class of fullerene graphs.