Side lengths of pseudoconvex fullerene patches

Authors

  • Christina M. Graves The University of Texas at Tyler, United States
  • Jennifer McLoud-Mann The University of Texas at Tyler, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26493/1855-3974.231.d5b

Keywords:

Fullerenes, Fullerene Patches, boundary codes, pseudoconvex patches

Abstract

In this paper we consider fullerene patches with nice boundaries containing between one and five pentagonal faces.  We find necessary conditions for the side lengths of such patches, and then prove these conditions are sufficient by constructing such patches.

Published

2012-03-28

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