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Suppose G is a simple graph, \(\Gamma \le Aut(G)\) and \(\alpha \in \Gamma \). Define \(\mu (G)=\sum _{u \in V(G), \alpha \in \Gamma } d(u,\alpha (u))\), \(\eta (G)=\sum _{u \in V(G), \alpha \in \Gamma } ( d(u,\alpha (u)))^2\), \(GP(G)= \frac{|V(G)|}{2|\Gamma |}\mu (G)\) and \(GP^{(2)}(G) = \frac{1}{2}GP(G) + \frac{|V(G)|}{4|\Gamma |}\eta (G)\). The graph invariants GP(G) and \(GP^{(2)}(G)\) are two recent measures for comparing symmetry of complex networks. The aim of this paper is to compute the symmetry of web and spider web graphs and then apply the structure of these groups to calculate the graph invariants GP(G) and \(GP^{(2)}(G)\). These numbers help us to judge on the complexity of these networks.
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We are indebted to referees for their suggestions and helpful remarks. This work is supported partially by the University of Kashan under grant no 364988/279.
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Madani, S., Ashrafi, A.R. Symmetry and two symmetry measures for the web and spider web graphs. J. Appl. Math. Comput. 64, 737–748 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-020-01376-x
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