Ars Combinatoria
ISSN 0381-7032 (print), 2817-5204 (online)
Ars Combinatoria is the oldest Canadian journal of combinatorics, established in 1976, dedicated to advancing combinatorial mathematics through the publication of high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers. Over the decades, it has built a strong international reputation and continues to serve as a leading platform for significant contributions to the field.
Open Access: The journal follows the Diamond Open Access model—completely free for both authors and readers, with no article processing charges (APCs).
Publication Frequency: From 2024 onward, Ars Combinatoria publishes four issues annually—in March, June, September, and December.
Scope: Publishes research in all areas of combinatorics, including graph theory, design theory, enumeration, algebraic combinatorics, combinatorial optimization and related fields.
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Rapid Publication: Submissions are processed efficiently, with accepted papers published promptly in the next available issue.
Print & Online Editions: Issues are available in both print and online formats to serve a broad readership.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 411-418
- Published: 31/10/2013
In this paper, we use the \(q\)-difference operator and the Andrews-Askey integral to give a transformation for the Al-Salam-Carlitz polynomials. As applications, we obtain an expansion of the Carlitz identity and some other identities for Al-Salam-Carlitz
polynomials .
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 397-409
- Published: 31/10/2013
In this paper we define new generalizations of the Lucas numbers,which also generalize the Perrin numbers. This generalization is based on the concept of \(k\)-distance Fibonacci numbers. We give in-terpretations of these numbers with respect to special decompositions and coverings, also in graphs. Moreover, we show some identities for these numbers, which often generalize known classical relations for the Lucas numbers and the Perrin numbers. We give an application of the distance Fibonacci numbers for building the Pascal’s triangle.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 385-396
- Published: 31/10/2013
This paper introduces the new notions of \(\delta-\alpha-\)open sets and the \(\delta-\alpha-\)continuous functions in the topological spaces and investigates some of their properties.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 373-384
- Published: 31/10/2013
Let \(G\) be a finite cyclic group. Every sequence \(S\) of length \(l\) over \(G\) can be written in the form \(S = (n_1g) \cdots (n_lg)\), where \(g \in G\) and \(n_1, \ldots, n_l \in [1, \text{ord}(g)]\), and the \({index}\) \(\text{ind}(S)\) of \(S\) is defined to be the minimum of \((n_1 + \cdots + n_l)/\text{ord}(g)\) over all possible \(g \in G\) such that \(\langle g \rangle = G\). In this paper, we determine the index of any minimal zero-sum sequence \(S\) of length \(5\) when \(G = \langle g \rangle\) is a cyclic group of a prime order and \(S\) has the form \(S = g^2{(n_2g)}(n_3g){(n_4)}\). It is shown that if \(G = \langle g \rangle\) is a cyclic group of prime order \(p \geq 31\), then every minimal zero-sum sequence \(S\) of the above-mentioned form has index \(1\), except in the case that \(S = g^2(\frac{p-1}{2}g)(\frac{p+3}{2}g)((p-3)g)\).
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 361-371
- Published: 31/10/2013
The paper presents two sharp upper bounds for the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of mixed graphs in terms of the degrees and the average \(2\)-degrees, which improve and generalize the main results of Zhang and Li [Linear Algebra Appl.\(353(2002)11-20]\),Pan (Linear Algebra Appl.\(355(2002)287-295]\),respectively. Moreover, we also characterize some extreme graphs which attain these upper bounds. In last, some examples show that our bounds are improvement on some known bounds in some cases.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 353-360
- Published: 31/10/2013
Cagman \(et\; al\). introduced the concept of a fuzzy parameterized fuzzy soft set(briefly, \(FPFS)\) which is an extension of a fuzzy set and a soft set. In this paper, we introduce the concepts of \(FPFS\) filters and \(FPFS\) implicative filters of lattice implication algebras and obtain some related results. Finally, we define the concept of \(FPFS\)-aggregation operator of lattice implication algebras.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 329-351
- Published: 31/10/2013
We propose a practical linear time algorithm for the LONGEST PATH problem on \(2\)-trees.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 323-327
- Published: 31/10/2013
By means of a \(q\)-binomial identity, we give two generalizations of Prodinger’s formula, which is equivalent to the famous Dilcher’s formula.
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 307-322
- Published: 31/10/2013
In this paper, we consider a random mapping \(\hat{T}_{n,\theta}\) of the finite set \(\{1,2,\ldots,n\}\) into itself, for which the digraph representation \(\hat{G}_{n,\theta}\) is constructed by: (1) selecting a random number \(\hat{L}_n\) of cyclic vertices, (2) constructing a uniform random forest of size \(n\) with the selected cyclic vertices as roots, and (3) forming `cycles’ of trees by applying to the selected cyclic vertices a random permutation with cycle structure given by the Ewens sampling formula with parameter \(\theta\). We investigate \(\hat{k}_{n,\theta}\), the size of a `typical’ component of \(\hat{G}_{n,\theta}\), and we obtain the asymptotic distribution of \(\hat{k}_{n,\theta}\) conditioned on \(\hat{L}_n = m(n)\). As an application of our results, we show in Section 3 that provided \(\hat{L}_n\) is of order much larger than \(\sqrt{n}\), then the joint distribution of the normalized order statistics of the component sizes of \(G_{n,\theta}\) converges to the Poisson-Dirichlet \((\theta)\) distribution as \(n \to \infty\).
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- Volume 112
- Pages: 293-306
- Published: 31/10/2013
In this paper, we study some properties of Euler polynomials arising from umbral calculus. Finally, we give some interesting identities of Euler polynomials using our results. Recently, D. S. Kim and T. Kim have studied some identities of Frobenius-Euler polynomials arising from umbral calculus \((see[6])\).
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