Exact enumeration of fullerenes
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arXiv2304.01655MaRDI QIDQ6432007FDOQ6432007
Authors: Philip Engel, Jan Goedgebeur, Peter Smillie 
Publication date: 4 April 2023
Abstract: A fullerene, or buckyball, is a trivalent graph on the sphere with only pentagonal and hexagonal faces. Building on ideas of Thurston, we use modular forms to give an exact formula for the number of oriented fullerenes with a given number of vertices.
Molecular structure (graph-theoretic methods, methods of differential topology, etc.) (92E10) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20) Chemical graph theory (05C92)
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