Growth: A Journal of Mathematics and Mathematics Education
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Growth: A Journal of Mathematics and Mathematics Education aims to provide a publication platform for high quality undergraduate research in mathematics and in mathematical pedagogy. The technical scope of the journal is combinatorial mathematics, broadly interpreted—the editorial board will consider all submissions in their areas of interest. All submitted articles must have an undergraduate research component and must be certified by a senior researcher. All submissions will be peer reviewed according to standard practices in academic mathematics. Precise editorial policies are set by the editorial board.
- Research article
- https://www.doi.org/10.61091/jcmcc125-02
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 125
- Pages: 21-38
- Published Online: 27/03/2025
In order to solve the multi-objective optimization problem of resource allocation in enterprise strategic management, the article firstly establishes a multi-objective resource allocation model for maximizing the benefits of enterprises in enterprise strategic management. Then, it optimizes and improves the initial population, convergence factor and dynamic weights of the gray wolf algorithm, increases the population diversity by using the population strategy of reverse learning, improves the convergence factor into a nonlinear factor, and finally changes the decision-making weights of the gray wolf leadership and applies the dynamic weights to improve the accuracy of the algorithm. Subsequently, the improved gray wolf algorithm is utilized for model decoupling. By applying this paper’s algorithm and the other two algorithms to solve the six algorithms 30*6, 60*6, 90*2, 90*4, 150*4 and 150*6 for 9 times, it is found that in the analysis of the 30*6 algorithm, the enterprise’s resource allocation reaches 5,000 when the time is 110 s. At the same time, this paper’s algorithm obtains a better non-dominated solution than the other two algorithms, which proves that this paper’s algorithm solves the multi-objective resource allocation problem of enterprise law industry is proved to be effective.
- Research article
- https://www.doi.org/10.61091/jcmcc125-01
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 125
- Pages: 3-20
- Published Online: 27/03/2025
In food processing, foreign matter inevitably contaminates packaged food. To ensure food safety, ray-based detection is used; however, the original images suffer from aberrations and noise that degrade quality and hinder further processing. Thus, images are preprocessed to enhance quality by highlighting key features and suppressing irrelevant ones before abnormal pattern recognition. Following image segmentation, a BP neural network algorithm is applied for foreign object detection. In tests with contaminants such as metal wires, stones, and glass, the algorithm identified distinct abnormal fluctuations at gray levels of 132, 108, and 34, respectively, allowing it to reliably detect foreign objects. Although the practical detection rate reached 100%, occasional misjudgments suggest that further optimization is needed. Overall, this method introduces a novel approach to detecting foreign objects in food and offers promising new strategies for improving food safety monitoring.
- Research article
- https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-07
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 93-108
- Published Online: 23/03/2025
Let \(G=(V,E,F)\) be a planar graph with vertex set \(V\), edge set \(E\), and set of faces \(F.\) For nonnegative integers \(a,b,\) and \(c\), a type \((a,b,c)\) face-magic labeling of \(G\) is an assignment of \(a\) labels to each vertex, \(b\) labels to each edge, and \(c\) labels to each face from the set of integer labels \(\{1,2,\dots a|V|+b|E|+c|F|\}\) such that each label is used exactly once, and for each \(s\)-sided face \(f \in F,\) the sum of the label of \(f\) with the labels of the vertices and edges incident with \(f\) is equal to some fixed constant \(\mu_s\) for every \(s.\) We find necessary and sufficient conditions for every quadruple \((a,b,c,n)\) such that the \(n\)-prism graph \(Y_n \cong K_2 \square C_n\) admits a face-magic labeling of type \((a,b,c)\).
- Research article
- https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-06
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 81-92
- Published Online: 23/03/2025
A special type of algebraic intersection graph called the \(n\)-inordinate invariant intersection graph has been constructed based on the symmetric group, and its structural properties are studied in the literature. In this article, we discuss the different types of dominator coloring schemes of the \(n\)-inordinate invariant intersection graphs and their complements, \(n\)-inordinate invariant non-intersection graphs, by obtaining the required coloring pattern and determining the graph invariant associated with the coloring.
- Research article
- https://www.doi.org/10.61091/um122-05
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 65-80
- Published Online: 22/03/2025
Let \(G\) be a connected graph and let \(d_G\) be the geodesic distance on \(V(G)\). The metric spaces \((V(G), d_{G})\) were characterized up to isometry for all finite connected \(G\) by David C. Kay and Gary Chartrand in 1965. The main result of this paper expands this characterization on infinite connected graphs. We also prove that every metric space with integer distances between its points admits an isometric embedding in \((V(G), d_G)\) for suitable \(G\).
- Research article
- https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-04
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 53-64
- Published Online: 22/03/2025
MacMahon extensively studied integer compositions, including the notion of conjugation. More recently, Agarwal introduced \(n\)-color compositions and their cyclic versions were considered by Gibson, Gray, and Wang. In this paper, we develop and study a conjugation rule for cyclic \(n\)-color compositions. Also, for fixed \(\ell\), we identify and enumerate the subset of self-conjugate compositions of \(\ell\), as well as establish a bijection between these and the set of cyclic regular compositions of \(\ell\) with only odd parts.
- Research article
- https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-03
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 41-52
- Published Online: 22/03/2025
The covering cover pebbling number, \(\sigma(G)\), of a graph \(G\), is the smallest number such that some distribution \(D \in \mathscr{K}\) is reachable from every distribution starting with \(\sigma(G)\) (or more) pebbles on \(G\), where \(\mathscr{K}\) is a set of covering distributions. In this paper, we determine the covering cover pebbling number for two families of graphs those do not contain any cycles.
- Research article
- https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-02
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 29-40
- Published Online: 22/03/2025
Jeff Remmel introduced the concept of a \(\mathit{k}\)-11-representable graph in 2017. This concept was first explored by Cheon et al. in 2019, who considered it as a natural extension of word-representable graphs, which are exactly 0-11-representable graphs. A graph \(G\) is \(k\)-11-representable if it can be represented by a word \(w\) such that for any edge (resp., non-edge) \(xy\) in \(G\) the subsequence of \(w\) formed by \(x\) and \(y\) contains at most \(k\) (resp., at least \(k+1\)) pairs of consecutive equal letters. A remarkable result of Cheon et al. is that any graph is 2-11-representable, while it is still unknown whether every graph is 1-11-representable. Cheon et al. showed that the class of 1-11-representable graphs is strictly larger than that of word-representable graphs, and they introduced a useful toolbox to study 1-11-representable graphs, which was extended by additional powerful tools suggested by Futorny et al. in 2024. In this paper, we prove that all graphs on at most 8 vertices are 1-11-representable hence extending the known fact that all graphs on at most 7 vertices are 1-11-representable. Also, we discuss applications of our main result in the study of multi-1-11-representation of graphs we introduce in this paper analogously to the notion of multi-word-representation of graphs suggested by Kenkireth and Malhotra in 2023.
- Research article
- https://doi.org/10.61091/um122-01
- Full Text
- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 122
- Pages: 3-27
Topological Indices (TIs) are quantitative measures derived from molecular geometry and are utilized to predict physicochemical properties. Although more than 3000 TIs have been documented in the published literature, only a limited number of TIs have been effectively employed owing to certain limitations. A significant drawback is the higher degeneracy resulting from the lower discriminative power. TIs utilize simple graphs in which atoms and bonds are conceptualized as the vertices and edges of mathematical graphs. As multiple edges are not supported in these graphs, double and triple bonds are considered single. Consequently, the molecular structure undergoes alterations during the conversion process, which ultimately affects the discriminative power. In this investigation, indices for double-bond incorporation were formulated to preserve structural integrity. This study addresses, demonstrates, and verifies a set of double-bonded indices. The indices demonstrated promising results, exhibiting enhanced discriminative power when validated for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using regression analysis. These indices and their potential applications will significantly contribute to QSAR/QSPR studies.
- Research article
- https://www.doi.org/10.61091/ars162-09
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 162
- Pages: 103-121
- Published Online: 22/03/2025
In 2003, the frequency assignment problem in a cellular network motivated Even et al. to introduce a new coloring problem: Conflict-Free coloring. Inspired by this problem and by the Gardner-Bodlaender’s coloring game, in 2020, Chimelli and Dantas introduced the Conflict-Free Closed Neighborhood \(k\)-coloring game (CFCN \(k\)-coloring game). The game starts with an uncolored graph \(G\), \(k\geq 2\) different colors, and two players, Alice and Bob, who alternately color the vertices of \(G\). Both players can start the game and respect the following legal coloring rule: for every vertex \(v\), if the closed neighborhood \(N[v]\) of \(v\) is fully colored then there exists a color that was used only once in \(N[v]\). Alice wins if she ends up with a Conflict-Free Closed Neighborhood \(k\)-coloring of \(G\), otherwise, Bob wins if he prevents it from happening. In this paper, we introduce the game for open neighborhoods, the Conflict-Free Open Neighborhood \(k\)-coloring game (CFON \(k\)-coloring game), and study both games on graph classes determining the least number of colors needed for Alice to win the game.




