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Fullerene graphs have exponentially many perfect matchings

Combinatorics 2010-05-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A fullerene graph is a planar cubic 3-connected graph with only pentagonal and hexagonal faces. We show that fullerene graphs have exponentially many perfect matchings.

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@article{arxiv.0801.1438,
  title  = {Fullerene graphs have exponentially many perfect matchings},
  author = {Frantisek Kardos and Daniel Král' and Jozef Miskuf and Jean-Sébastien Sereni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1438},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures