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The Kirchhoff index is defined as the sum of resistance distances between all pairs of vertices in a graph. This index is a critical parameter for measuring graph structures. In this paper, we characterize polygonal chains with the minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Qi Ma

The Kirchhoff index $Kf(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices, which was introduced by Klein and Randi\'c. In this paper we characterized all extremal graphs with Kirchhoff index among…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Kexiang Xu , Kinkar Ch. Das , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Let $G$ be a connected graph. The resistance distance between any two vertices of $G$ is equal to the effective resistance between them in the corresponding electrical network constructed from $G$ by replacing each edge with a unit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Qi Ma

Let $G$ be a connected graph. The resistance distance between any two vertices of $G$ is equal to the effective resistance between them in the corresponding electrical network constructed from $G$ by replacing each edge with a unit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Leilei Zhang

The Kirchhoff index of a connected graph is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in the graph. Its considerable applications are found in a variety of fields. In this paper, we determine the maximum value…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Dong Li , Xiang-Feng Pan , Jia-Bao Liu , Hui-Qing Liu

The Kirchhoff index of a connected graph is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in the graph. It found considerable applications in a variety of fields. In this paper, we determine the minimum Kirchhoff…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Xuli Qi , Bo Zhou , Zhibin Du

The concept of resistance distance was first proposed by Klein and Randi\'c. The Kirchhoff index $Kf(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the sum of resistance distance between all pairs of vertices in $G$. A connected graph $G$ is called a cactus if each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Wen-Rui Wang , Xiang-Feng Pan

Kirchhoff index, Kf(G), introduced by Klein and Randic in 1993, represents the total effective resistances between all pairs of vertices in a graph G, where each edge is regarded as a resistor. In this paper, the Kirchhoff indices of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Da-yeon Huh

The Kirchhoff index of a graph is defined as half of the sum of all effective resistance distances between any two vertices. Assuming a complete multipartite graph G, by methods from linear algebra we explicitly formulate effective…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Ravindra B. Bapat , Masoud Karimi , Jia-Bao Liu

The quadrilateral graph Q(G) is obtained from G by replacing each edge in G with two parallel paths of length 1 and 3, whereas the pentagonal graph W(G) is obtained from G by replacing each edge in G with two parallel paths of length 1 and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Qun Liu , Zhongzhi Zhang

We study three resistance distance-based graph invariants: the Kirchhoff index, and two modifications, namely, the multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index and the additive degree-Kirchhoff index. In work in press, one of the present authors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-10 Yujun Yang , Douglas J. Klein

The effective graph resistance, also known as the Kirchhoff index, is metric that is used to quantify the robustness of a network. We show that the optimisation problem of minimizing the effective graph resistance of a graph by adding a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-29 Robert E. Kooij , Massimo A. Achterberg

Let $G_n$ be a graph obtained by the strong product of $P_2$ and $C_n$, where $n\geqslant3$. In this paper, explicit expressions for the Kirchhoff index, multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index and number of spanning trees of $G_n$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Yingui Pan , Jianping Li

Resistance distance is a novel distance function, also a new intrinsic graph metric, which makes some extensions of ordinary distance. Let On be a linear crossed octagonal graph. Recently, Pan and Li (2018) derived the closed formulas for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Jing Zhao , Jia-Bao Liu , Sakander Hayat

For a graph G, the graph R(G) of a graph G is the graph obtained by adding a new vertex for each edge of G and joining each new vertex to both end vertices of the correspond- ing edge. Let I(G) be the set of newly added vertices. In this…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Qun Liu

The subdivision graph $S(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the graph obtained by inserting a new vertex into every edge of $G$. In $\cite{PL}$, two classes of new corona graphs, the corona-vertex of the subdivision graph $G_{1}\diamondsuit G_{2}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Qun Liu , Jia-Bao Liu , Shaohui Wang , Masoud Karimi

The Kirchhoff index and degree-Kirchhoff index have attracted extensive attentions due to its practical applications in complex networks, physics, and chemistry. In 2019, Liu et al. [Int. J. Quantum Chem. 119 (2019) e25971] derived the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jia-Bao Liu , Ting Zhang , Wenshui Lin

Let $G_n$ be a linear crossed polyomino chain with $n$ four-order complete graphs. In this paper, explicit formulas for the Kirchhoff index, the multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index and the number of spanning trees of $G_n$ are determined,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Yingui Pan , Jianping Li

The resistance between two nodes in some resistor networks has been studied extensively by mathematicians and physicists. Let $L_n$ be a linear hexagonal chain with $n$\, 6-cycles. Then identifying the opposite lateral edges of $L_n$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sumin Huang , Shuchao Li

The notion of resistance distance, introduced by Klein and Randi\'c, has become a fundamental concept in spectral graph theory and network analysis, as it captures both the structural and electrical properties of a graph. The associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Xiang-Yang Liu , Xiang-Feng Pan , Yong-Yi Jin , Li-Cheng Li
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