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The Spectral Moments of a Fullerene Graph and Their Applications

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Distance, Symmetry, and Topology in Carbon Nanomaterials

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A (k,6)-fullerene graph is a planar 3-regular graph with k-polygon faces. In this chapter, we are going to obtain spectral moments of (k,6)-fullerene graph for k = 3,4,5 and use them for calculating the Estrada index of these graphs.

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Kashan, Kashan, 87317-51167, Iran

    G. H. Fath-Tabar, F. Taghvaee & M. Javarsineh

  2. The Rugjer Boskovic Institute, NMR Center, HR-10002, Zagreb, 180, Croatia

    A. Graovac

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  1. Department of Nanocomputing, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

    Ali Reza Ashrafi

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Mircea V. Diudea

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Fath-Tabar, G.H., Taghvaee, F., Javarsineh, M., Graovac, A. (2016). The Spectral Moments of a Fullerene Graph and Their Applications. In: Ashrafi, A., Diudea, M. (eds) Distance, Symmetry, and Topology in Carbon Nanomaterials. Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31584-3_11

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