Title
Ordering connected graphs by their Kirchhoff indices.
Abstract
The Kirchhoff index <inline-formula><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink=\"gcom_a_1073722_ilm0001.gif\"/</inline-formula> of a graph G is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices, which was introduced by Klein and Randić. In this paper, we characterize all extremal graphs with respect to Kirchhoff index among all graphs obtained by deleting p edges from a complete graph <inline-formula><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink=\"gcom_a_1073722_ilm0002.gif\"/</inline-formula> with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink=\"gcom_a_1073722_ilm0003.gif\"/</inline-formula> and obtain a sharp upper bound on the Kirchhoff index of these graphs. In addition, all the graphs with the first to ninth maximal Kirchhoff indices are completely determined among all connected graphs of order <inline-formula><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" xlink=\"gcom_a_1073722_ilm0004.gif\"/</inline-formula>.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1080/00207160.2015.1073722
Int. J. Comput. Math.
Keywords
Field
DocType
graph, distance (in graph), Kirchhoff index, Laplacian spectrum, ordering
Graph theory,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Indifference graph,Chordal graph,Nowhere-zero flow,Cograph,Pathwidth,1-planar graph,Mathematics,Split graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
93
10
0020-7160
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kexiang Xu17211.43
Kinkar Ch. Das220830.32
Xiao-Dong Zhang39719.87