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Minimizing the effective graph resistance by adding links is NP-hard

Physics and Society 2024-04-29 v1

Abstract

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 fixed number of links, is NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.2302.12628,
  title  = {Minimizing the effective graph resistance by adding links is NP-hard},
  author = {Robert E. Kooij and Massimo A. Achterberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12628},
  year   = {2024}
}
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