Jack Graver, Christina Graves (PhD '09), Stephen Graves (PhD '09)
Abstract: In this paper, we show that fullerene patches with nice boundaries containing between 1 and 5 pentagons fall into several equivalence classes; furthermore, any two fullerene patches in the same class can be transformed into the same minimal configuration using combinatorial alterations.
Journal: Ars Math. Contemp. 7 (2014), no. 2, 405–421.
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