Acyclic molecules with greatest HOMO-LUMO separation

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 165-171

  Zhang, Fuji ^a   An, Chang ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contracted tree; Eigenvalue; Perfect matching; Tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037566618     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(99)00119-5     Document Type: Article

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