Symmetry of Fulleroids
Résumé
One of the important features of the structure of molecules is the presence of symmetry elements. Symmetry arguments can e.g. tell us whether the molecule is chiral and so it could be optically active. Structure of the symmetry group of a molecule affects several spectroscopic aspects and vice-versa. Thus, it is clearly important to know the possible symmetries of fullerenes and similar structures. In this chapter, we study symmetry groups of fulleroids. In the most general manner, a fulleroid can be viewed as a cubic (i.e. 3-valent) convex polytope with all faces of size at least five. This definition is a natural generalization of the notion of fullerenes.
Domaines
Mathématique discrète [cs.DM]
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