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Introduction: Main \(ZC\)-Notions

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In this chapter we summarize the main notions considered in this book and, briefly, the results that we obtain. Specifically, we define the pure graph theoretic and plane graph theoretic notions needed for this work with emphasis on symmetries.

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  1. École Normale Supérieure, Paris and University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

    Michel-Marie Deza

  2. Institute Rudjer Boúsković, Zagreb, Hrvatska, Croatia

    Mathieu Dutour Sikirić

  3. Russian Academy of Sciences, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia

    Mikhail Ivanovitch Shtogrin

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Deza, MM., Dutour Sikirić, M., Shtogrin, M.I. (2015). Introduction: Main \(ZC\)-Notions. In: Geometric Structure of Chemistry-Relevant Graphs. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, vol 1. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2449-5_1

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