Topological symmetry groups of small complete graphs (Q2412295)

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    Topological symmetry groups of small complete graphs
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      Topological symmetry groups of small complete graphs (English)
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      23 October 2017
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      Summary: Topological symmetry groups were originally introduced to study the symmetries of non-rigid molecules, but have since been used to study the symmetries of any graph embedded in \(\mathbb R^3\). In this paper, we determine for each complete graph \(K_n\) with \(n\leq 6\), what groups can occur as topological symmetry groups or orientation preserving topological symmetry groups of some embedding of the graph in \(\mathbb R^3\).
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      topological symmetry groups
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      molecular symmetries
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      complete graphs
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      spatial graphs
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