English

Construction of fullerenes

Combinatorics 2015-10-13 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We present an infinite series of operations on fullerenes generalizing the Endo-Kroto operation, such that each combinatorial fullerene is obtained from the dodecahedron by a sequence of such operations. We prove that these operations are invertible in the proper sense, and are compositions of (1;4,5)-, (1;5,5)-, (2,6;4,5)-, (2,6;5,5)-, (2,6;5,6)-, (2,7;5,5)-, and (2,7;5,6)-truncations, where each truncation increases the number of hexagons by one.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1510.02948,
  title  = {Construction of fullerenes},
  author = {Victor M. Buchstaber and Nickolai Erokhovets},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02948},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages, 56 figures

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