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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">najo</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Наносистемы: физика, химия, математика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2220-8054</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2305-7971</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Университет ИТМО</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17586/2220-8054-2020-11-2-131-137</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">najo-435</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>MATHEMATICS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>МАТЕМАТИКА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Reduced second Zagreb index of product graphs</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>De</surname><given-names>N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kolkata</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">de.nilanjan@rediffmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities (Mathematics),&#13;
Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management</institution><country>India</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2020</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>11</volume><issue>2</issue><elocation-id>131–137</elocation-id><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; De N., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">De N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">De N.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/435">https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/435</self-uri><abstract><p>The reduced second Zagreb index of a graph G is defined as RM2(G) = X (dG(u)−1)(dG(v)−1), where dG(v) denotes the degree uv∈E(G) of the vertex v of graph G. Recently Furtula et al. (Furtula B., Gutman I., Ediz S. Discrete Appl. Math., 2014) characterized the maximum trees with respect to reduced second Zagreb index. The aim of this paper is to compute reduced second Zagreb index of the Cartesian product of k (≥ 2) number of graphs and hence as a consequence the reduced second Zagreb index of some special graphs applicable in various real world problems are computed. Topological properties of different nanomaterials like nanotube, nanotorus etc. are studied here graphically in terms of the aforesaid aforementioned index.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Reduced second Zagreb index</kwd><kwd>cartesian product of graphs</kwd><kwd>nanotube</kwd><kwd>nanotorus</kwd><kwd>Hamming graphs</kwd><kwd>Ladder graphs</kwd><kwd>Rook’s graph</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Trinajstic N.´ Chemical Graph Theory. 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