Enumeration formulas for (3, 6)-fullerenes

Linda Green1, Yadunand Sreelesh1, Saanvi Arora1
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Abstract

A (3, 6)-fullerene is a cubic planar graph whose faces all have 3 or 6 sides. We give an exact enumeration of (3, 6)-fullerenes with V vertices. We also enumerate (3, 6)-fullerenes with mirror symmetry, with 3-fold rotational symmetry, and with both types of symmetry. The resulting formulas are expressed in terms of the prime factorization of V.

Keywords: fullerene, polyhedron, hexagonal tiling, trivalent graph, planar graph, two-faced map