Edge-defect matrices and stability of the Kirchhoff index for complete graphs with deleted edges
In this paper, we study the effective resistance, the Kirchhoff index, and the number of spanning trees of the connected graph $K_n-F$, which is obtained from the complete graph by deleting a set $F$ of $p$ edges. Let $B$ be the incidence matrix of the deleted edges. We call the matrix $Q=B^TB$ the edge-defect matrix....