A111361 The number of 4-regular plane graphs with all faces 3-gons or 4-gons.

0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 2, 8, 5, 12, 8, 25, 13, 30, 23, 51, 33, 76, 51, 109, 78, 144, 106, 218, 150, 274, 212, 382, 279, 499, 366, 650, 493, 815, 623, 1083, 800, 1305, 1020, 1653, 1261, 2045, 1554, 2505, 1946, 3008, 2322, 3713, 2829, 4354, 3418, 5233, 4063, 6234

Offset

2,9

Comments

These are the 4-regular graphs corresponding to the 3-regular fullerenes. Only the two smallest possible face sizes are allowed. The numbers up to a(33) have been checked by 2 independent programs. Further numbers have not been checked independently.

Links

Andrey Zabolotskiy, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..70

G. Brinkmann, O. Heidemeier and T. Harmuth, The construction of cubic and quartic planar maps with prescribed face degrees, Discrete Applied Mathematics 128: 541-554, (2003).

Gunnar Brinkmann and Brendan McKay, plantri and fullgen programs for generation of certain types of planar graph.

Gunnar Brinkmann and Brendan McKay, plantri and fullgen programs for generation of certain types of planar graph [Cached copy, pdf file only, no active links, with permission]

Michel-Marie Deza, Mathieu Dutour Sikiric and Mikhail Ivanovitch Shtogrin, Geometric Structure of Chemistry-Relevant Graphs, Springer, 2015; see Sec. 4.4.

Mathieu Dutour Sikiric and Michel Deza, 4-regular and self-dual analogs of fullerenes, arXiv:0910.5323 [math.GT], 2009.

T. Tarnai, F. Kovács, P. W. Fowler and S. D. Guest, Wrapping the cube and other polyhedra, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 468(2145) (2012), 2652-2666. DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0116.

Example

The smallest example is the octahedron (only 3-gons).

Crossrefs

Cf. A007894, A007022.

Cf. A167156, A167157, A167158, A167159.

Sequence in context: A076937 A014682 A167160 * A257971 A205377 A082010

Adjacent sequences: A111358 A111359 A111360 * A111362 A111363 A111364

Keyword

nonn

Author

Gunnar Brinkmann, Nov 07 2005

Extensions

Leading zeros prepended, terms a(34) and beyond added from the book by Deza et al. (except for a(60) from the paper by Brinkmann et al.) by Andrey Zabolotskiy, Oct 09 2021

Status

approved