Formal structure of periodic system of elements

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2018.0581MaRDI QIDQ5160636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wilmer Leal, Guillermo Restrepo

Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10752, http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc6501655

zbMATH Keywords

applied mathematicscovalent bondsgraph theoryinorganic chemistrymathematicsordered hypergraphperiodic systempolarizabilitysimilarity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10)

Abstract: For more than 150 years the structure of the periodic system of the chemical elements has intensively motivated research in different areas of chemistry and physics. However, there is still no unified picture of what a periodic system is. Herein, based on the relations of order and similarity, we report a formal mathematical structure for the periodic system, which corresponds to an ordered hypergraph. It is shown that the current periodic system of chemical elements is an instance of the general structure. The definition is used to devise a tailored periodic system of polarizability of single covalent bonds, where order relationships are quantified within subsets of similar bonds and among these classes. The generalised periodic system allows envisioning periodic systems in other disciplines of science and humanities.

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