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 101
- Pages: 289-299
- Published: 31/07/2011
In this note, we determine the exact value for the second largest eigenvalue of the derangement graph, by deriving a formula for all the eigenvalues corresponding to the \(2\)-part partitions. This result is then used to obtain.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 265-287
- Published: 31/07/2011
Since ancient times, mathematicians have considered geometrical objects with integral side lengths. We consider plane integral point sets \(P\), which are sets of \(n\) points in the plane with pairwise integral distances, where not all the points are collinear.
The largest occurring distance is called its diameter. Naturally, the question about the minimum possible diameter \(d(2, 7)\) of a plane integral point set consisting of \(7\) points arises. We give some new exact values and describe state-of-the-art algorithms to obtain them. It turns out that plane integral point sets with minimum diameter consist very likely of subsets with many collinear points. For this special kind of point sets, we prove a lower bound for \(d(2, n)\) achieving the known upper bound \(n^{c_2\log \log n }\) up to a constant in the exponent.
A famous question of Erdés asks for plane integral point sets with no \(3\) points on a line and no \(4\) points on a circle. Here, we talk of point sets in general position and denote the corresponding minimum diameter by \(d(2,n)\). Recently \(d(2, 7) = 22270\) could be determined via an exhaustive search.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 257-264
- Published: 31/07/2011
In this paper, we study invariant sequences by umbral method, and give some identities which are similar with the identities of Bernoulli numbers.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 251-256
- Published: 31/07/2011
In this paper, we consider the total domination number, the restrained domination number, the total restrained domination number and the connected domination number of lexicographic product graphs.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 225-249
- Published: 31/07/2011
In this paper, we obtain the numbers of embeddings of wheel graphs on some orientable and nonorientable surfaces of small genera, mainly on torus, double torus, and nonorientable surfaces of genus \(1, 2, 3\), and \(4\). These are the first results for embeddings of wheel graphs on nonorientable surfaces as known up to now.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 217-223
- Published: 31/07/2011
An \((a, d)\)-edge-antimagic total labeling for a graph \(G(V, E)\) is an injective mapping \(f\) from \(V \cup E\) onto the set \(\{1, 2, \ldots, |V| + |E|\}\) such that the set \(\{f(v) + \sum f(uv) \mid uv \in E\}\), where \(v\) ranges over all of \(V\), is \(\{a, a+d, a+2d, \ldots, a+(|V|-1)d\}\). Simanjuntak et al conjecture:1. \(C_{2n}\) has a \((2n + 3, 4)\)- or a \((2n + 4, 4)\)-edge-antimagic total labeling;
2. cycles have no \((a, d)\)-edge-antimagic total labelings with \(d > 5\).In this paper, these conjectures are shown to be true.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 209-215
- Published: 31/07/2011
This article discusses the geometricity of the direct sum, direct product and lexicographic products of two lattices, and compute their characteristic polynomials and classify their geometricity.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 193-207
- Published: 31/07/2011
This paper introduces the concepts of a \({supergraph}\) and \({graphical\; complexity}\) of a permutation group, intended as a tool for investigating the structure of concrete permutation groups. Basic results are established and some research problems suggested.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 187-192
- Published: 31/07/2011
We given a two parameter generalization of identities of Carlitzand Gould involving products of binomial coefficients. The generalization involves Jacobi polynomials.
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- Volume 101
- Pages: 161-185
- Published: 31/07/2011
Consider a connected undirected graph \(G = (V, E)\) and an integer \(r \geq 1\). For any vertex \(v \in V\), let \(B_r(v)\) denote the ball of radius \(r\) centered at \(v\), i.e., the set of all vertices linked to \(v\) by a path of at most \(r\) edges. If for all vertices \(v \in V\), the sets \(B_r(v)\) are different, then we say that \(G\) is \(r\)-twin-free.
Studies have been made, e.g., on the number of edges or the minimum degree in one-twin-free graphs. We extend these investigations and in particular we determine the exact size of the largest clique in a connected \(r\)-twin-free graph.
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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