<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 4:46 PM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">"<i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">having an atomic </i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">weight allows you to break some degeneracies.</span><span class="gmail_default" style="white-space:pre-wrap">"</span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Thanks Roger. This bit about the atomic weights seems the most interesting part, the only thing that can save the algorithm from exponential expense. I still don't have a good idea of what the final complexity ends up being.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I meant to say atomic number, but weights also work to distinguish classes of vertices. But looking at Wieninger's canonicalization paper, it doesn't make that much difference, you still end up summing out the spanning tree from each atom in the molecule no matter what labels are on the vertices</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The question of what ends up being constructible and under what (potentially extreme) conditions is fascinating. I spent a chunk of the morning thinking about the time scales that one can expect certain compounds to come into existence, especially when some of their constituent atoms require supernova in the first place. Is it safe to say that there are compounds that exist only on Earth?</div></div>
</blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">That's an odd question, it's a safe bet to take for or against, because I don't see how anyone could establish it one way or another.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- rec --</div></div>