On the structural non-identifiability of flexible branched polymers

Entropy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 907-916

  Nitta, Koh Hei ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Branched polymer; Cospectral graph; Gaussian chain; Graph theory; Laplacian matrix; Rouse matrix; Tree; Zimm matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953519411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e11040907     Document Type: Article

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