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Abstract
A fullerene graph is a 3-connected plane cubic graph in which every face is pentagonal or hexagonal. A set of hexagons \(\mathcal {H}\) of G is called a resonant pattern if there exists a perfect matching M of G such that exactly three edges of H is contained in M for each member H of \(\mathcal {H}\). In this paper we prove for any natural number k that almost all of the family of k disjoint hexagons are resonant patterns in sufficiently large fullerene graphs.
富勒烯图是一个三连平面立方图,其中每个面都是五边形或六边形。如果 G 中存在完美匹配的 M,使得 H 的每一个成员 H 都有三条边包含在 M 中,那么 G 的六边形集合 \(\mathcal {H}\) 就被称为共振图案。在本文中,我们证明了对于任意自然数 k,在足够大的富勒烯图中,几乎所有 k 个不相交的六边形族都是共振图案。
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