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.

Süleyman Yuksel1, Münnevver Ozcan2
1POLATLI ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, GAZI UNI- VERSITY, ANKARA, TURKEY;
2Department of Mathematics and Computer, Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey;
Abstract:

In this study, it has been researched which Euclidean regular polyhedrons are also taxicab regular and which are not. The existence of non-Euclidean taxicab regular polyhedrons in the taxicab \(3\)-space has also been investigated.

Xuemei Liu1, Qingfeng Sun1
1 College of Science, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, 300300, P.R. China
Abstract:

As a generalization of attenuated space, the concept of singular linear spaces was firstly introduced in [1]. In this paper, we construct a family of error-correcting pooling designs with the incidence matrix of two types of subspaces of singular linear space over finite fields, and exhibit their disjunct properties. Moreover, we show that the new construction gives better ratio of efficiency than the former ones under certain conditions. Finally, the paper gives a brief introduction about the relationship between the columns (rows) of the matrix and the related parameters.

Shude Long1
1Department of Mathematics, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, P.R.China
Abstract:

A map is unicursal if all its vertices are even-valent except two odd-valent vertices. This paper investigates the enumeration of rooted nonseparable unicursal planar maps and provides two functional equations satisfied by its generating functions with the number of nonrooted vertices, the number of inner faces (or the number of edges) and the valencies of the two odd vertices of maps as parameters.

Xiaodong Chen1, MingChu Li2, Meijin Xu1
1College of Science, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, P.R. China
2School of Software Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China
Abstract:

Let \(\sigma_k(G)\) denote the minimum degree sum of \(k\) independent vertices of a graph \(G\). A spanning tree with at most \(3\) leaves is called a spanning \(3\)-ended tree. In this paper, we prove that for any \(k\)-connected claw-free graph \(G\) with \(|G| = n\), if \(\sigma_{k+3}(G) \geq n – k\), then \(G\) contains a spanning \(3\)-ended tree.

Lii Damei1
1 Department of Mathematics, Nantong University, Nantong 210007, P.R.China
Abstract:

As a promotion of the channel assignment problem, an \(L(1,1,1)\)-labeling of a graph \(G\) is an assignment of nonnegative integers to \(V(G)\) such that the difference between labels of adjacent vertices is at least \(1\), and the difference between labels of vertices that are distance two and three apart is at least \(1\). About \(10\) years ago, many mathematicians considered colorings (proper, general, total or from lists) such that vertices (all or adjacent) are distinguished either by sets or multisets or sums. In this paper, we will study \(L(1,1,1)\)-labeling-number and \(L(1,1)\)-edge-labeling-number of the edge-path-replacement. From this, we will consider the total-neighbor-distinguishing coloring and the neighbor-distinguishing coloring of the edge-multiplicity-paths-replacements, give a reference for the conjectures: \(\text{tndis-}_\Sigma(G) \leq \Delta + 3\), \(\text{ndi}_\Sigma(G) \leq \Delta + 2\), and \(\text{tndi}_S(G) \leq \Delta + 3\) for the edge-multiplicity-paths-replacements \(G(rP_k)\) with \(k \geq 3\) and \(r \geq 1\).

Bo Deng1, An Chang2, Haixing Zhao3
1College of Science, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology , Maoming, Guangdong, 525000, P.R.C.
2Center of Discrete Mathematics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350003, P.R.C.
3College Computer, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, Qinghai, 810008, P. R. C.
Abstract:

A \(T\)-shape tree is a tree with exactly one of its vertices having maximal degree \(3\). In this paper, we consider a class of tricyclic graphs which is obtained from a \(T\)-shape tree by attaching three identical odd cycles \(C_ks\) to three vertices of degree \(1\) of the \(T\)-shape tree, respectively, where \(k \geq 3\) is odd. It is shown that such graphs are determined by their adjacency spectrum.

Yingqiu Yang1
1 School of Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 100081, P. R. China
Abstract:

In this paper, we have proved that if a contraction critical \(8\)-connected graph \(G\) has no vertices of degree \(8\), then for every vertex \(x\) of \(G\), either \(x\) is adjacent to a vertex of degree \(9\), or there are at least \(4\) vertices of degree \(9\) such that every one of them is at distance \(2\) from \(x\).

Haoli Wang1, Xirong Xu2, Yuansheng Yang2, Bao Liu2, Wenping Zheng3, Guoging Wang4
1College of Computer and Information Engineering Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, P. R. China
2Department of Computer Science Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China
3Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing of Ministry of Education, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, P. R. China
4Department of Mathematics Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, 300387, P. R. China
Abstract:

The crossing number of a graph \(G\) is the minimum number of pairwise intersections of edges in a drawing of \(G\). The \(n\)-dimensional locally twisted cubes \(LTQ_n\), proposed by X.F. Yang, D.J. Evans and G.M. Megson, is an important interconnection network with good topological properties and applications. In this paper, we mainly obtain an upper bound on the crossing number of \(LTQ_n\), no more than \(\frac{265}{6}4^{n-4} – (n^2 + \frac{15+(-1)^{n-1}}{6}2^{n-3}\).

Amir Barghi1, Peter Winkler2
1Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at New Paltz;
2Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth, Hanover NH 03755-3551, USA;
Abstract:

Let \(G\) be an infinite geometric graph; in particular, a graph whose vertices are a countable discrete set of points on the plane, with vertices \(u, v\) adjacent if their Euclidean distance is less than 1. A “fire” begins at some finite set of vertices and spreads to all neighbors in discrete steps; in the meantime, \(f\) vertices can be deleted at each time-step. Let \(f(G)\) be the least \(f\) for which any fire on \(G\) can be stopped in finite time. We show that if \(G\) has bounded density, in the sense that no open disk of radius \(r\) contains more than \(\lambda\) vertices, then \(f(G)\) is bounded above by ceiling of a universal constant times \(\frac{\lambda}{r^2}\). Similarly, if the density of \(G\) is bounded from below in the sense that every open disk of radius \(r\) contains at least \(\beta\) vertices, then \(f(G)\) is bounded below by \(\kappa\) times the square of the floor of a universal constant times \(\frac{1}{r}\).

Bin Xu1, Jie Wu2, Qinfen Shi3, Sifeng Liu1
1School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211106, P. R. China
2Department of Science and Technology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212003, P. R. China
3Department of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210046, P. R. China
Abstract:

Let \(G\) be a graph, and let \(k \geq 2\) be an integer. A graph \(G\) is fractional independent-set-deletable \(k\)-factor-critical (in short, fractional ID-\(k\)-factor-critical) if \(G – I\) has a fractional \(k\)-factor for every independent set \(I\) of \(G\). In this paper, a Fan-type condition for fractional ID-\(k\)-factor-critical graphs is given.