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Number of Matchings of Low Order in (4,6)-Fullerene Graphs
We obtain the formulae for the numbers of 4-matchings and 5-matchings in
terms of the number of hexagonal faces in (4, 6)-fullerene graphs by studying
structural classification of 6-cycles and some local structural properties,
which correct the corresponding wrong results published. Furthermore, we obtain
a formula for the number of 6-matchings in tubular (4, 6)-fullerenes in terms
of the number of hexagonal faces, and a formula for the number of 6-matchings
in the other (4,6)-fullerenes in terms of the numbers of hexagonal faces and
dual-squares.Comment: This article was already published in 2017 in MATCH Commun. Math.
Comput. Chem. We are uploading it to arXiv for readers' convenienc
2-Resonant fullerenes
A fullerene graph is a planar cubic graph with exactly 12 pentagonal
faces and other hexagonal faces. A set of disjoint hexagons of
is called a resonant pattern (or sextet pattern) if has a perfect
matching such that every hexagon in is -alternating.
is said to be -resonant if any () disjoint hexagons of
form a resonant pattern. It was known that each fullerene graph is
1-resonant and all 3-resonant fullerenes are only the nine graphs. In this
paper, we show that the fullerene graphs which do not contain the subgraph
or as illustrated in Fig. 1 are 2-resonant except for the specific eleven
graphs. This result implies that each IPR fullerene is 2-resonant.Comment: 34 pages, 25 figure