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The energy of a graph is defined as the sum of the absolute values of all the eigenvalues of the graph. Gutman (Acyclic conjugated molecules, trees and their energies, J. Math. Chem. 1 (1987) 123–143) proposes two conjectures about the minimum of the energy of conjugated trees (trees with a perfect matching), which are verified by Zhang and Li (On acyclic conjugated molecules with minimal energies, Discrete Appl. Math. 92 (1999) 71–84). This paper focuses on the trees of conjugated hydrocarbon\(n/2\)/EquationSource> trees in the class in the increasing order of their energies.
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Li, H. On minimal energy ordering of acyclic conjugated molecules. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 25, 145–169 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019180316117
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