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.
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Publication Frequency: From 2024 onward, Ars Combinatoria publishes four issues annually—in March, June, September, and December.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 385-409
- Published: 31/10/2012
For any abelian group \(A\), we denote \(A^*=A-\{0\}\). Any mapping \(1: E(G) \to A^*\) is called a labeling. Given a labeling on the edge set of \(G\) we can induce a vertex set labeling \(1^+: V(G) \to A\) as follows:
\[1^+(v) = \Sigma\{1(u,v): (u,v) \in E(G)\}.\]
A graph \(G\) is known as \(A\)-magic if there is a labeling \(1: E(G) \to A^*\) such that for each vertex \(v\), the sum of the labels of the edges incident to \(v\) are all equal to the same constant; i.e., \(1^+(v) = c\) for some fixed \(c\) in \(A\). We will call \(\langle G,\lambda \rangle\) an \(A\)-magic graph with sum \(c\).
We call a graph \(G\) fully magic if it is \(A\)-magic for all non-trivial abelian groups \(A\). Low and Lee showed in [11] if \(G\) is an eulerian graph of even size, then \(G\) is fully magic. We consider several constructions that produce infinite families of fully magic graphs. We show here every graph is an induced subgraph of a fully magic graph.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 441-453
- Published: 31/10/2012
In \(1989\), Zhu, Li, and Deng introduced the definition of implicit degree, denoted by \(\text{id}(v)\), of a vertex \(v\) in a graph \(G\) and they obtained sufficient conditions for a graph to be hamiltonian with the implicit degrees. In this paper, we prove that if \(G\) is a \(2\)-connected graph of order \(n\) with \(\alpha(G) \leq n/2\) such that \(\text{id}(v) \geq (n-1)/2\) for each vertex \(v\) of \(G\), then \(G\) is hamiltonian with some exceptions.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 431-439
- Published: 31/10/2012
The compact, Fredholm, and isometric weighted composition operators are characterized in this paper.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 419-430
- Published: 31/10/2012
We discuss the chromaticity of one family of \(K_4\)-homeomorphs with exactly two non-adjacent paths of length two, where the other four paths are of length greater than or equal to three. We also give a sufficient and necessary condition for the graphs in the family to be chromatically unique.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 411-418
- Published: 31/10/2012
In this paper, we deduced the following new Stirling series:
\[ n! \sim \sqrt{2n\pi} (\frac{n}{2})^n exp(\frac{1}{12n+1}[1 + \frac{1}{12n} (1+\frac{\frac{2}{5}}{n} + \frac{\frac{29}{150}}{n^2} – \frac{\frac{62}{2625}}{n^3} – \frac{\frac{9173}{157500}}{n^4} +\ldots )^{-1}]) ,\]
which is faster than the classical Stirling’s series.
- Research article
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 107
- Pages: 385-409
- Published: 31/10/2012
For any abelian group \(A\), we denote \(A^*=A-\{0\}\). Any mapping \(1: E(G) \to A^*\) is called a labeling. Given a labeling on the edge set of \(G\) we can induce a vertex set labeling \(1^+: V(G) \to A\) as follows:
\[1^+(v) = \Sigma\{1(u,v): (u,v) \in E(G)\}.\]
A graph \(G\) is known as \(A\)-magic if there is a labeling \(1: E(G) \to A^*\) such that for each vertex \(v\), the sum of the labels of the edges incident to \(v\) are all equal to the same constant; i.e., \(1^+(v) = c\) for some fixed \(c\) in \(A\). We will call \(\langle G,\lambda \rangle\) an \(A\)-magic graph with sum \(c\).
We call a graph \(G\) fully magic if it is \(A\)-magic for all non-trivial abelian groups \(A\). Low and Lee showed in \([11]\) if \(G\) is an eulerian graph of even size, then \(G\) is fully magic. We consider several constructions that produce infinite families of fully magic graphs. We show here every graph is an induced subgraph of a fully magic graph.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 379-384
- Published: 31/10/2012
The general neighbor-distinguishing total chromatic number \(\chi”_{gnd}(G)\) of a graph \(G\) is the smallest integer \(k\) such that the vertices and edges of \(G\) can be colored by \(k\) colors so that no adjacent vertices have the same set of colors. It is proved in this note that \(\chi”_{gnd}(G) = \lceil \log_2 \chi(G) \rceil + 1\), where \(\chi(G)\) is the vertex chromatic number of \(G\).
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 369-378
- Published: 31/10/2012
A sequence \(A\) is a \(B_h^*[g]\) sequence if the coefficients of \((\sum_{a\in A}(z)^a)^h\) are bounded by \(g\). The standard Sidon sequence is a \(B[2]\) sequence. Finite Sidon sequences are called Golomb rulers, which are found to have many applications such as error correcting codes, radio frequency selection, and radio antennae placement. Let \(R_h(g,n)\) be the largest cardinality of a \(B[g]\) sequence contained in \(\{1,2,\ldots,n\}\), and \(F(h,g,k) = \min\{n : R_h(g,n) \geq k\}\). In this paper, computational techniques are applied to construct optimal generalized Sidon sequences, and \( 49\) new exact values of \(F(2,g,k)\) are found.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 361-368
- Published: 31/10/2012
Recently, Chu \([5]\) derived two families of terminating \(_2F_1(2)\)-series identities. Their \(q\)-analogues will be established in this paper.
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- Volume 107
- Pages: 353-360
- Published: 31/10/2012
Let \(H\), \(G\) be two graphs, where \(G\) is a simple subgraph of \(H\). A \(G\)-decomposition of \(H\), denoted by \(G-GD_\lambda(H)\), is a partition of all the edges of \(H\) into subgraphs (called \(G\)-blocks), each of which is isomorphic to \(G\). A large set of \(G-GD_\lambda(H)\), denoted by \(G-LGD_\lambda(H)\), is a partition of all subgraphs isomorphic to \(G\) of \(H\) into \(G-GD_\lambda(H)\)s. In this paper, we determine the existence spectrums for \(K_{2,2}-LGD_\lambda(K_{m,n})\).
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