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Topological rubber gloves

Journal of Mathematical Chemistry volume 23, pages 31–49 (1998)Cite this article

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This paper introduces the concept of a topological rubber glove and gives several examples. In particular, we prove that the knot 817 and the molecular graph of a single stranded DNA figure eight knot are topological rubber gloves. Then, we present an embedded graph which is not only a topological rubber glove, but has the additional property that no embedding of the graph can be rotated to its mirror image

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Flapan, E. Topological rubber gloves. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry 23, 31–49 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019113006605

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Keywords

  • Order Orientation
  • Molecular Graph
  • Orientation Preserve
  • Simple Closed Curve
  • Simple Closed Curf