CHIRALITY MEASURES AND GRAPH REPRESENTATIONS

Chirality (''handedness'') is a geometrical-topological property of ma ny physical systems, a fundamentally important aspect of chemistry (in particular, of molecular shape), and a fascinating feature of mathema tical objects such as knots and graphs. In this contribution, some asp ects of the quantification problem of chirality are discussed, with sp ecial emphasis on chirality measures and their graph representations.