Polyhedra in physics, chemistry and geometry (Q1878642)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2099225
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2099225 |
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Polyhedra in physics, chemistry and geometry (English)
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7 September 2004
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This is an expository survey paper about the appearance of convex three-dimensional polyhedra in several areas of modern physics and chemistry. Several of the examples concern the investigation of arrangements of points that minimize certain energy functions (e.g. electrons on a sphere). The presentation is lively and entertaining, but it does not follow more traditional terminology about polyhedra (e.g. as in \textit{G. M. Ziegler}'s book `Lecture notes on polytopes' (1995; Zbl 0823.52002)).
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convex polytopes
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Platonic solids
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minimal energy configurations
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particle interaction
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Thompson problem
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skyrmions
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fullerenes
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geometric energies
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Lennard-Jones clusters
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0.7129097580909729
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0.6991241574287415
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0.6894872188568115
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