Spectral energies of redefined Zagreb indices and comparative QSPR applications to anticancer and alcohol datasets
摘要
This article develops a unified framework for the redefined Zagreb descriptors that combines graph theory, spectral analysis, and molecular structure–property applications. We study the basic redefined Zagreb descriptors together with their higher-order variants, introduce the associated weighted graph matrices, and investigate their spectral radii, energies, and related structural interpretations. For several standard graph families, including paths, cycles, complete graphs, stars, complete bipartite graphs, wheels, and friendship graphs, we derive explicit formulas and show how these descriptors reflect different degree patterns and connectivity structures. We also establish general bounds for the descriptors and their weighted spectral quantities, thereby clarifying their connections with classical degree-based indices and adjacency energy. To examine chemical relevance, we first consider a small set of anticancer drug-like molecules and use it as an analytical descriptor study. In this setting, the redefined Zagreb descriptors and their energy-based analogues are strongly associated with size-related physicochemical quantities, while the mixed higher-order descriptor