Some lower bounds on the Kirchhoff index

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Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

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Let $G=(V,E)$, $V=\{v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_n\}$, $E=\{e_1,e_2,\ldots, e_m\}$, be a simple graph of order $n\ge 2$ and size $m$ without isolated vertices. Denote with $\mu_1\ge \mu_2\ge \cdots \ge \mu_{n-1}>\mu_n=0$ the Laplacian eigenvalues of $G$. The Kirchhoff index of a graph $G$,  defined in terms of Laplacian eigenvalues, is given as $Kf(G) = n \sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\frac{1}{\mu_i}$. Some new lower bounds on $Kf(G)$ are obtained.

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Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization
Volume 9, Issue 1
March 2024
Pages 27-36

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