First and second Zagreb eccentricity indices of thorny graphs (Q2415026)

Summary: The Zagreb eccentricity indices are the eccentricity reformulation of the Zagreb indices. Let $H$ be a simple graph. The first Zagreb eccentricity index ($E_1(H)$) is defined to be the summation of squares of the eccentricity of vertices, i.e., $E_1(H) = \sum_{u \in V(H)}\varepsilon_H^2(u)$. The second Zagreb eccentricity index ($E_2(H)$) is the summation of product of the eccentricities of the adjacent vertices, i.e., $E_2(H) = \sum_{u v \in E(H)}\varepsilon_H(u) \varepsilon_H(v)$. We obtain the thorny graph of a graph $H$ by attaching thorns i.e., vertices of degree one to every vertex of $H$. In this paper, we will find closed formulation for the first Zagreb eccentricity index and second Zagreb eccentricity index of different well known classes of thorny graphs.