Abstract
In this paper, we show that fullerene patches with nice boundaries containing between 1 and 5 pentagons fall into several equivalence classes; furthermore, any two fullerene patches in the same class can be transformed into the same minimal configuration using combinatorial alterations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 405-421 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Ars Mathematica Contemporanea |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Fullerene patches
- Fullerenes
- Pseudoconvex patches
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Algebra and Number Theory
- Geometry and Topology
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics