
Ars Combinatoria
ISSN 0381-7032 (print), 2817-5204 (online)
Ars Combinatoria is the oldest Canadian Journal of Combinatorics, established in 1976. The journal is dedicated to advancing the field of combinatorial mathematics through the publication of high-quality research papers. From 2024 onward, it publishes four volumes per year in March, June, September and December. Ars Combinatoria has gained recognition and visibility in the academic community and is indexed in renowned databases such as MathSciNet, Zentralblatt, and Scopus. The Scope of the journal includes Graph theory, Design theory, Extremal combinatorics, Enumeration, Algebraic combinatorics, Combinatorial optimization, Ramsey theory, Automorphism groups, Coding theory, Finite geometries, Chemical graph theory but not limited.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 181-191
- Published: 30/04/2008
In this paper, we, by means of Rosa’s \(\alpha\)-labelling and \(k\)-graceful labelling, prove that generalized spiders, generalized caterpillars, and generalized path-block chains are graceful under some conditions. Some of the results are stronger than that obtained in \([4]\).
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 205-212
- Published: 30/04/2008
We study convexity with respect to a definition of fractional independence in a graph \(G\) that is quantified over neighbourhoods rather than edges. The graphs that admit a so-called universal maximal fractional independent set are characterized, as are all such sets. A characterization is given of the maximal fractional independent sets which cannot be obtained as a proper convex combination of two other such sets.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 175-180
- Published: 30/04/2008
In this paper, we consider the relationship between the toughness and the existence of fractional \(f\)-factors. It is proved that a graph $G$ has a fractional \(f\)-factor if \(t(G) \geq \frac{b^2+b}{a}-\frac{b+1}{b}\). Furthermore, we show that the result is best possible in some sense.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 161-173
- Published: 30/04/2008
It is always fascinating to see what results when seemingly different areas of mathematics overlap. This article reveals one such result; number theory and linear algebra are intertwined to yield complex factorizations of the classic Fibonacci, Pell, Jacobsthal, and Mersenne numbers. Also, in this paper we define a new matrix generalization of the Fibonacci numbers, and using essentially a matrix approach we show some properties of this matrix sequence.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 147-159
- Published: 30/04/2008
The notion of meandric polygons is introduced in this paper. A bijection exists between the set of meandric polygons and that of closed meanders. We use these polygons to enumerate the set of meanders which have a fixed number of arcs of the meandric curves lying above and below the horizontal line at a given point.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 139-146
- Published: 30/04/2008
In this paper, we give a sufficient and necessary condition for a \(k\)-extendable graph to be \(2k\)-factor-critical when \(k = \frac{v}{4}\), and prove some results on independence numbers in \(n\)-factor-critical graphs and \(k\frac{1}{2}\)-extendable graphs.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 127-138
- Published: 30/04/2008
In this paper, we show that some families of graphs are arbitrarily graceful or almost graceful.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 119-126
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 105-117
- Published: 30/04/2008
We consider the lattice of order ideals of the union of an \(n\)-element fence and an antichain of size \(i\), whose Hasse diagram turns out to be isomorphic to the \(i\)-th extended Fibonacci cube. We prove that the Whitney numbers of these lattices form a unimodal sequence satisfying a particular property, called \({alternating}\), we find the maximum level of the game sequence and determine the exact values of these numbers.
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- Volume 087
- Pages: 97-104
- Published: 30/04/2008
Let \(D\) be a strongly connected digraph with order at least two. Let \(T(D)\) denote the total digraph of \(D\), and let \(\kappa(D)\) and \(\lambda(D)\) denote the connectivity and arc-connectivity of \(D\), respectively. In this paper, we study super-arc-connected and super-connected total digraphs. The following results are obtained:
- \(T(D)\) is super-arc-connected if and only if \(D \ncong \overrightarrow{K_2}\).
- If \(\kappa(D) + \lambda(D) > \delta(D) + 1\), then \(T(D)\) is super-connected.