Congressus Numerantium
ISSN: 0384-9864
Congressus Numerantium, established in 1970, is one of the oldest international journals devoted to high-quality research in combinatorics and related areas. Over the decades, it has published numerous fully refereed research papers as well as conference proceedings from prestigious international meetings, making it a cornerstone of the combinatorics community.
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Publication Frequency: From 2024 onward, Congressus Numerantium publishes two volumes annually—released in June and December.
Scope: The journal welcomes original research papers and survey articles in pure and applied combinatorics. It also invites special issues dedicated to conferences, workshops, or selected topics of current interest, carrying forward its tradition of serving the global combinatorial mathematics community.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 95-102
- Published: 31/12/2019
Let \( D \) be a digraph on \( n \) vertices. A cycle \( C \) in \( D \) is said to be 1-extendable if there exists a cycle \( C’ \) in \( D \) such that the vertex set of \( C’ \) contains the vertex set of \( C \) and \( C’ \) contains exactly one additional vertex. A digraph is 1-cycle-extendable if every non-Hamiltonian cycle is 1-extendable.
A cycle \( C \) in \( D \) is said to be 2-extendable if there exists a cycle \( C’ \) in \( D \) such that the vertex set of \( C’ \) contains the vertex set of \( C \) and \( C’ \) contains exactly two additional vertices. A digraph is 2-cycle-extendable if every cycle on at most \( n-2 \) vertices is 2-extendable.
A digraph is 1,2-cycle-extendable if every non-Hamiltonian cycle is either 1-extendable or 2-extendable. It has been previously shown that not all strong tournaments (orientations of a complete undirected graph) are 1-extendable, but are 2-extendable. The structure of all non 1-extendable tournaments is shown as a type of block Kronecker product of 1-extendable subtournaments.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 79-94
For a toroidal graph \( G = (V, E) \) embedded in the torus, let \( \mathcal{F}(G) \) denote the set of faces of \( G \). Then, \( G \) is called a \( C_{n} \)-face-magic torus graph if there exists a bijection \( f: V(G) \rightarrow \{1, 2, \ldots, |V(G)|\} \) such that for any \( F \in \mathcal{F}(G) \) with \( F \cong C_{n} \), the sum of all the vertex labelings along \( C_{n} \) is a constant \( S \).
Let \( x_{v} = f(v) \) for all \( v \in V(G) \). We call \( \{x_{v} : v \in V(G)\} \) a \( C_{n} \)-face magic torus labeling on \( G \).
We say that a \( C_{4} \)-face-magic torus labeling \( \{x_{i,j} \} \) on \( C_{2n} \times C_{2n} \) is antipodal balanced if \( x_{i,j} + x_{i+n,j+n} = \frac{1}{2}S \) for all \( (i, j) \in V(C_{2n} \times C_{2n}) \).
We determine all antipodal balanced \( C_{4} \)-face-magic torus labelings on \( C_{4} \times C_{4} \) up to symmetries on a torus.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 53-78
- Published: 31/12/2019
Steinhaus graphs are a small (there are \( 2^{n-1} \) of them on \( n \) vertices) but interesting family of graphs. They have been studied for over forty years, and it has been shown that almost all graphs have certain properties if and only if almost all Steinhaus graphs have these properties.
In this paper, we find and count all the complements of Steinhaus graphs that are claw-free.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 39-52
- Published: 31/12/2019
Edge-Nim is a combinatorial game played on finite regular graphs with positive, integrally weighted edges. Two players alternately move from an initialized vertex to an adjacent vertex, decreasing the weight of the incident edge to a strictly non-negative integer as they travel across it. The game ends when no incident edge has a nonzero weight and a player is unable to move, in which case that player loses.
We characterize the winner of Edge-Nim on the complete bipartite graphs \( K_{2,n} \) for all positive integers \( n \), giving the solution and complete strategy for the player able to win.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 31-38
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Given a graph \( G \), we are interested in finding disjoint paths for a given set of distinct pairs of vertices. In 2017, we formally defined a new parameter, the pansophy of \( G \), in the context of the disjoint path problem.
In this paper, we investigate the pansophy of two classes of graphs that contain a vertex that we define as the superuser. The superuser of a graph is a vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex. We close with future research directions.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 11-20
- Published: 31/12/2019
A grid on a cell of a game board attacks all neighboring cells. The domination number counts the minimum number of grids such that each cell of a board is occupied or attacked by a grid.
For square boards (chess boards), the domination number has been determined in a series of papers. Here, we start to consider grids on hexagon boards \( B_n \) as parts of the Euclidean tessellation by congruent regular hexagons, where \( B_1 \) is one hexagon, \( B_2 \) consists of the three hexagons around one vertex, and \( B_n \) for \( n \geq 3 \) consists of \( B_{n-2} \) together with all hexagons having at least one hexagon in common with \( B_{n-2} \).
An upper bound is presented for the grid domination number, and exact values are determined by computer for small \( n \).
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 21-30
- Published: 31/12/2019
Given a graph \( G \), we are interested in finding disjoint paths for a given set of distinct pairs of vertices. In 2017, we formally defined a new parameter, the pansophy of \( G \), in the context of the disjoint path problem.
In this paper, we construct a method to determine the pansophy of any complete bipartite graph, and then generalize the method to compute the pansophy of any complete multipartite graph. We close with future research directions.
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 3-10
- Published: 31/12/2019
The \emph{Reconstruction Number} of a graph \( G \), denoted \( RN(G) \), is the minimum number \( k \) such that there exist \( k \) vertex-deleted subgraphs of \( G \) which determine \( G \) up to isomorphism. More precisely, \( RN(G) = k \) if and only if there are vertex-deleted subgraphs \( G_1, G_2, \ldots, G_k \), such that if \( H \) is any graph with vertex-deleted subgraphs \( H_1, H_2, \ldots, H_k \), and \( G_i \cong H_i \) for \( i = 1, 2, \ldots, k \), then \( G \cong H \).
A \emph{unicyclic graph} is a connected graph with exactly one cycle. In this paper, we find reconstruction numbers for various types of unicyclic graphs. With one exception, all unicyclic graphs considered have \( RN(G) = 3 \).
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- Volume 233
- Pages: 297 -220
- Published: 31/12/2019
In this work, we introduce the Interval Permutation Segment (IP-SEG) model that naturally generalizes the geometric intersection models of interval and permutation graphs.
We study properties of two graph classes that arise from the IP-SEG model and present a family of forbidden subgraphs for these classes. In addition, we present polynomial algorithms for the following problems on these classes, when the model is given as part of the input.
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- Volume 232
- Pages: 265-279
- Published: 31/12/2019
Let \( S_n \) be the random walk on \( (0, 1) \). The \( S_n \) have been the subject of intense study; their definition is immediately intuitive. Nevertheless, they are quite intentionally disorderly, and this disorder is mirrored by the fact that, pointwise, \( \left( \frac{S_n}{\sqrt{n}} \mid n \in \mathbb{N}^+ \right) \) behaves quite badly.
In this paper, we provide our results on the fine structure of the random walk that give insight into this behavior.




