The Kirchhoff indices and the matching numbers of unicyclic graphs

The Kirchhoff index of a connected graph is the sum of resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in the graph. In this paper, we determine the minimum Kirchhoff index among the unicyclic graphs with fixed number of vertices and matching number, and characterize the extremal graphs.

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