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 084
- Pages: 65-76
- Published: 31/07/2007
A semigraph \(G\) is an ordered pair \((V,X)\) where \(V\) is a non-empty set whose elements are called vertices of \(G\) and \(X\) is a set of \(n\)-tuples (\(n > 2\)), called edges of \(G\), of distinct vertices satisfying the following conditions:
i) any edge \((v_1, v_2, \ldots, v_n)\) of \(G\) is the same as its reverse \((v_n, v_{n-1}, \ldots, v_1)\),and
ii) any two edges have at most one vertex in common.
Two edges are adjacent if they have a common vertex. \(G\) is edge complete if any two edges in \(G\) are adjacent. In this paper, we enumerate the non-isomorphic edge complete \((p,2)\)semigraphs.
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- Volume 084
- Pages: 51-64
- Published: 31/07/2007
Let \(G = (V, E)\) be a graph. A subset \(D \subseteq V\) is called a dominating set for \(G\) if for every \(v \in V – D\), \(v\) is adjacent to some vertex in \(D\). The domination number \(\gamma(G)\) is equal to \(\min \{|D|: D \text{ is a dominating set of } G\}\).
In this paper, we calculate the domination numbers \(\gamma(C_m \times C_n)\) of the product of two cycles \(C_m\) and \(C_n\) of lengths \(m\) and \(n\) for \(m = 5\) and \(n = 3 \mod 5\), also for \(m = 6, 7\) and arbitrary \(n\).
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- Volume 084
- Pages: 33-49
- Published: 31/07/2007
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 084
- Pages: 23-31
- Published: 31/07/2007
In this paper, we consider a certain second order linear recurrence and then give generating matriees for the sums of positively and negatively subscripted terms of this recurrence. Further, we use matrix methods and derive explicit. formulas for these sums.
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- Volume 084
- Pages: 13-22
- Published: 31/07/2007
For a simple and finite graph \(G = (V,E)\), let \(w_{\max}(G)\) be the maximum total weight \(w(E) = \sum_{e\in E} w(e)\) of \(G\) over all weight functions \(w: E \to \{-1,1\}\) such that \(G\) has no positive cut, i.e., all cuts \(C\) satisfy \(w(C) \leq 0\).
For \(r \geq 1\), we prove that \(w_{\max}(G) \leq -\frac{|V|}{2}\) if \(G\) is \((2r-1)\)-regular and \(w_{\max}(G) \leq -\frac{r|V|}{2r+1}\) if \(G\) is \(2r\)-regular. We conjecture the existence of a constant \(c\) such that \(w_{\max}(G) \leq -\frac{5|V|}{6} + c\) if \(G\) is a connected cubic graph and prove a special case of this conjecture. Furthermore, as a weakened version of this conjecture, we prove that \(w_{\max}(G) \leq -\frac{2|V|}{3}+\frac{2}{3}\) if \(G\) is a connected cubic graph.
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- Volume 084
- Pages: 3-11
- Published: 31/07/2007
Let \(G_i\) be the subgraph of \(G\) whose edges are in the \(i\)-th color in an \(r\)-coloring of the edges of \(G\). If there exists an \(r\)-coloring of the edges of \(G\) such that \(H_i \nsubseteq G_i\) for all \(1 \leq i \leq r\), then \(G\) is said to be \(r\)-colorable to \((H_1, H_2, \ldots, H_r)\). The multicolor Ramsey number \(R(H_1, H_2, \ldots, H_r)\) is the smallest integer \(n\) such that \(K_n\) is not \(r\)-colorable to \((H_1, H_2, \ldots, H_r)\). It is well known that \(R(C_m, C_4, C_4) = m + 2\) for sufficiently large \(m\). In this paper, we determine the values of \(R(C_m, C_4, C_4)\) for \(m \geq 5\), which show that \(R(C_m, C_4, C_4) = m + 2\) for \(m \geq 11\).
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- Volume 083
- Pages: 381
- Published: 30/04/2007
The proof of gracefulness for the Generalised Petersen Graph \(P_{8t,3}\) for every \(t \geq 1\), written by the same author (Graceful labellings for an infinite class of generalised Petersen graphs, Ars Combinatoria \(81 (2006)\), pp. \(247-255)\), requires the change of just one label, for the only case \(t = 5\).
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- Volume 083
- Pages: 365-379
- Published: 30/04/2007
For words of length \(n\), generated by independent geometric random variables, we study the average initial and end heights of the last descent in the word. In addition, we compute the average initial and end height of the last descent in a random permutation of \(n\) letters.
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- Volume 083
- Pages: 361-363
- Published: 30/04/2007
We construct a record-breaking binary code of length \(17\), minimal distance \(6\), constant weight \(6\), and containing \(113\) codewords.
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- Volume 083
- Pages: 353-359
- Published: 30/04/2007
The purpose of this note is to give the power formula of the generalized Lah matrix and show \(\mathcal{L}[x,y] = \mathcal{FQ}[x,y]\), where \(\mathcal{F}\) is the Fibonacci matrix and \(\mathcal{Q}[x,y]\) is the lower triangular matrix. From it, several combinatorial identities involving the Fibonacci numbers are obtained.
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