Contraction Formulas For Kirchhoff And Wiener Indices
arXiv:1308.4334
Abstract
We establish several contraction formulas for Kirchhoff index. We relate Kirchhoff index with some other metrized graph invariants. By applying our contraction formulas successively when the graph is a tree, we derive new formulas for Wiener index and obtain some previously known Wiener index formulas with new proofs.