Rigid components in molecular graphs

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 399-412

  Jackson, Bill ^a   Jordán, Tibor ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Combinatorial rigidity; Edge disjoint spanning trees; Molecular graphs; Rigid graphs; Squares of graphs

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL RIGIDITY; EDGE DISJOINT SPANNING TREES; MOLECULAR GRAPHS; RIGID GRAPHS; SQUARES OF GRAPHS;

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 34547440257     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: 14320541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-007-0170-8     Document Type: Article

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