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.
Indexing & Abstracting: Indexed in MathSciNet, Zentralblatt MATH, and EBSCO, ensuring wide visibility and scholarly reach.
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 105
- Pages: 117-127
- Published: 31/07/2012
This paper investigates the number of rooted simple bipartite maps on the sphere and presents some formulae for such maps with the number of edges and the valency of the root-face as two parameters.
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- Volume 105
- Pages: 103-115
- Published: 31/07/2012
For a graph \(G = (V(G), E(G))\), the transformation graph \(G^{+-+}\) is the graph with vertex set \(V(G) \cup E(G)\) in which the vertices \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are joined by an edge if and only if \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are adjacent or incident in \(G\) while \(\{\alpha, \beta\} \not\subseteq E(G)\), or \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are not adjacent in \(G\) while \(\{\alpha, \beta\} \in E(G)\). In this note, we show that all but for a few exceptions, \(G^{+-+}\) is super-connected and super edge-connected.
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- Volume 105
- Pages: 95-101
- Published: 31/07/2012
In this paper, we give matrix representations of the \(k\)-generalized order-\(k\) Perrin numbers and we obtain relationships between these sequences and matrices. In addition, we calculate the determinant of this matrix.
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- Volume 105
- Pages: 83-93
- Published: 31/07/2012
A graph \(G\) is \(k\)-total domination edge critical, abbreviated to \(k\)-critical if confusion is unlikely, if the total domination number \(\gamma_t(G)\) satisfies \(\gamma_t(G) = k\) and \(\gamma_t(G + e) < \gamma_t(G)\) for any edge \(e \in E(\overline{G})\).Graphs that are \(4\)-critical have diameter either \(2\), \(3\), or \(4\). In previous papers, we characterized structurally the \(4\)-critical graphs with diameter four and found bounds on the order of \(4\)-critical graphs with diameter two. In this paper, we study a family \(\mathcal{H}\) of \(4\)-critical graphs with diameter three, in which every vertex is a diametrical vertex, and every diametrical pair dominates the graph. We also generalize the self-complementary graphs and show that these graphs provide a special case of the family \(\mathcal{H}\).
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- Volume 105
- Pages: 77-81
- Published: 31/07/2012
A finite planar set is \(k\)-isosceles for \(k \geq 3\) if every \(k\)-point subset of the set contains a point equidistant from two others. There exists no convex \(4\)-isosceles \(8\)-point set with \(8\) points on a circle.
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- Volume 105
- Pages: 73-76
- Published: 31/07/2012
In this note, motivated by the non-existence of a vertex-transitive strongly regular graph with parameters \((3250, 57, 0, 1)\), we obtain a feasibility condition concerning strongly regular graphs admitting an automorphism group with exactly two orbits on vertices. We also establish a result on the possible orbit sizes of a potential strongly regular graph with parameters \((3250, 57, 0, 1)\). We use our results to obtain a list of only 11 possible orbit size combinations for a potential strongly regular graph with parameters \((3250, 57, 0, 1)\) admitting an automorphism group with exactly two orbits.
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- Volume 106
- Pages: 527-533
- Published: 31/07/2012
In this note it is shown that the number of cycles of a linear hypergraph is bounded below by its cyclomatic number.
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- Volume 106
- Pages: 521-526
- Published: 31/07/2012
The Padmakar-Ivan \((PI)\) index is a Wiener-Szeged-like topological index. In this paper, we study the \(PI\) index of thorn graphs, and we present a generally useful method which can reduce the computational amount of \(PI\) index strikingly.
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- Volume 106
- Pages: 509-519
- Published: 31/07/2012
The concept of the sum graph and integral sum graph were introduced by F. Harary. In this paper, we gain some upper and lower bounds on the sum number and the integral sum number of a graph and these bounds are sharp, and some new properties on the integral sum graph. Using these results, we could directly investigate and determine the exclusive integral sum numbers, the exclusive sum numbers, the sum numbers and the integral sum numbers of the graphs \(K_n\backslash E(2P_3)\), \(K_n\backslash E(P_3)\) and any graph \(H\) with minimum degree \(\delta(H) = n-2\) respectively as \(2\) is more than a given number. Then they will be the beginning of a new thought of research on the (exclusive) sum graph and the (exclusive) integral sum graph.
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- Volume 105
- Pages: 65-71
- Published: 31/07/2012
Let \(G = (V, E)\) be a simple connected graph, where \(d_u\) is the degree of vertex \(u\), and \(d_G(u, v)\) is the distance between \(u\) and \(v\). The Schultz index of \(G\) is defined as \(\mathcal{W}_+(G) = \sum\limits_{u,v \subset V(G)} (d_u + d_v)d_G(u,v).\)In this paper, we investigate the Schultz index of a class of trees with diameter not more than \(4\).
Call for papers
- Proceedings of International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (ICDM 2025) – Submissions are closed
- Proceedings of International Conference on Graph Theory and its Applications (ICGTA 2026)
- Special Issue of Ars Combinatoria on Graph Theory and its Applications (ICGTA 2025)
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