Title
On the maximum forcing and anti-forcing numbers of (4, 6)-fullerenes.
Abstract
Let G be a (4,6)-fullerene graph. We show that the maximum forcing number of G is equal to its Clar number, and the maximum anti-forcing number of G is equal to its Fries number, which extend the known results for hexagonal systems with a perfect matching (Xu etal., 2013; Lei etal., 2016). Moreover, we obtain two formulas dependent only on the order of G to count the Clar number and Fries number of G respectively. Hence we can compute the maximum forcing number of a (4,6)-fullerene graph in linear time. This answers an open problem proposed by Afshani etal. (2004) in the case of (4,6)-fullerene graphs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.dam.2017.07.009
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
(4, 6)-fullerene,Perfect matching,Forcing number,Anti-forcing number
Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Open problem,Hexagonal crystal system,Matching (graph theory),Forcing (mathematics),Time complexity,Fullerene,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
233
C
0166-218X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lingjuan Shi120.73
hongwei wang2368.68
Heping Zhang362.13