Abstract
A patch is a plane graph whose boundary is an elementary circuit with only vertices of degree 2 or 3, with all degree-2 vertices restricted to the boundary. A Kekulé structure for a patch is a perfect matching. Not all patches admit a perfect matching; in this paper, we define internal Kekulé structures, which match all degree-3 vertices but not necessarily all degree-2 vertices. We consider internal Kekulé structures for general patches to determine what properties of Kekulé structures on hexagonal or graphene patches can be generalized to arbitrary patches, and when a graphene patch with a few defective (non-hexagonal) faces in the interior still "behaves like graphene" away from the defects.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 693-705 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Match |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2016 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- Computer Science Applications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics