Clar Structure and Fries Set of Fullerenes and (4,6)‎-Fullerenes on Surfaces

Abstract EN

Fowler and Pisanski showed that the Fries number for a fullerene on surface Σ is bounded above by |V|/3, and fullerenes which attain this bound are exactly the class of leapfrog fullerenes on surface Σ.

We showed that the Clar number of a fullerene on surface Σ is bounded above by (|V|/6)-χ(Σ), where χ(Σ) stands for the Euler characteristic of Σ.

By establishing a relation between the extremal fullerenes and the extremal (4,6)-fullerenes on the sphere, Hartung characterized the fullerenes on the sphere S0 for which Clar numbers attain (|V|/6)-χ(S0).

We prove that, for a (4,6)-fullerene on surface Σ, its Clar number is bounded above by (|V|/6)+χ(Σ) and its Fries number is bounded above by (|V|/3)+χ(Σ), and we characterize the (4,6)-fullerenes on surface Σ attaining these two bounds in terms of perfect Clar structure.

Moreover, we characterize the fullerenes on the projective plane N1 for which Clar numbers attain (|V|/6)-χ(N1) in Hartung’s method.