Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5776787 | Discrete Mathematics | 2017 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Viewing fullerenes as plane graphs with facial cycles being pentagonal and hexagonal only, it is shown how to reduce an arbitrary fullerene to the (graph of the) dodecahedron. This can be achieved by a sequence of eight reduction steps, seven of which are local operations and the remaining reduction step acts globally. In any case, the resulting algorithm has polynomial running time.
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Authors
Herbert Fleischner,