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.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 134
- Pages: 93-98
- Published: 31/07/2017
A regular graph \(\Gamma\) is said to be semisymmetric if its full automorphism group acts transitively on its edge set but not on its vertex set. Some authors classified semisymmetric cubic graphs of orders \(10p\) and \(10p^2\). Also, it is proved that there is no connected semisymmetric cubic graph of order \(10p^3\). In this paper, we continue this work and prove that there is no connected semisymmetric cubic graph of order \(10p^n\), where \(n \geq 4\), \(p \geq 7\), and \(p \neq 11\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 134
- Pages: 81-91
- Published: 31/07/2017
In this.paper, by joint tree model, we obtain the genera of two types of graphs, which are suspensions of cartesian products of two types of bipartite graphs from a vertex.
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- Volume 134
- Pages: 75-79
- Published: 31/07/2017
Let \(G\) be a connected graph with a perfect matching on \(2n\) vertices (\(n \geq 2\)). A graph \(G’\) is a contraction of \(G\) if it can be obtained from \(G\) by a sequence of edge contractions. Then \(G\) is said to be edge contractible if for any contraction \(G’\) of \(G\) with \(|V(G’)|\) even, \(G’\) has a perfect matching. In this note, we obtain a sufficient and necessary condition for a graph to be an edge contractible graph.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 134
- Pages: 61-74
- Published: 31/07/2017
All finite Jacobson graphs with a Hamiltonian cycle or path, or Eulerian tour or trail are determined, and it is shown that a finite Jacobson graph is Hamiltonian if and only if it is pancyclic. Also, the length of the longest induced cycles and paths in finite Jacobson graphs are obtained.
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- Volume 134
- Pages: 51-60
- Published: 31/07/2017
A vertex subset \(S\) of a digraph \(D\) is called a dominating set of \(D\) if every vertex not in \(S\) is adjacent from at least one vertex in \(S\). The domination number of \(D\), denoted by \(\gamma(D)\), is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of \(D\). We characterize the rooted trees and connected contrafunctional digraphs \(D\) of order \(n\) satisfying \(\gamma(D) = \left\lceil \frac{n}{2}\right\rceil\). Moreover, we show that for every digraph \(D\) of order \(n\) with minimum in-degree at least one, \(\gamma(D) \leq \frac{(k+1)n}{2k+1}\), where \(2k+1\) is the length of a shortest odd directed cycle in \(D\), and we characterize the corresponding digraphs achieving this upper bound. In particular, if \(D\) contains no odd directed cycles, then \(\gamma(D) \leq \frac{n}{2}\).
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- Volume 134
- Pages: 43-50
- Published: 31/07/2017
A graph is called degree-magic if it admits a labelling of the edges by integers \(\{1, 2, \ldots, |E(G)|\}\) such that the sum of the labels of the edges incident with any vertex \(v\) is equal to \(\left(1 + |E(G)|\right)/2 \deg(v)\). In this paper, we show that a class of join graphs are degree-magic.
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- Volume 134
- Pages: 29-41
- Published: 31/07/2017
A vertex-deleted unlabeled subgraph of a graph \(G\) is called a card of \(G\). A card of \(G\) with which the degree of the deleted vertex is also given is called a degree-associated card or dacard of \(G\). The degree-associated reconstruction number, \(\mathrm{drn}(G)\), of a graph \(G\) is the size of the smallest collection of dacards of \(G\) that uniquely determines \(G\). The maximal subgraph without end vertices of a graph \(G\) that is not a tree is called the pruned graph of \(G\). It is shown that \(\mathrm{drn}\) of some connected graphs with regular pruned graph is \(2\) or \(3\).
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- Volume 134
- Pages: 3-27
- Published: 31/07/2017
The Wiener index of a connected graph is the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices in the graph. Feng et al. in [The hyper-Wiener index of bicyclic graphs, Utilitas Math., \(84(2011) 97-104\)] determined the bicyclic graphs having the largest Wiener index. In this article, we determine the graphs having the second up to seventh largest Wiener indices among all bicyclic graphs with \(n\) vertices.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 101
- Pages: 301-319
- Published: 30/05/2017
This paper obtains new combinatorial batch codes (CBCs) from old ones, studies properties of uniform CBCs, and constructs uniform CBCs using semilattices.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 101
- Pages: 281-299
- Published: 30/05/2017
For graphs \(F\) and \(H\), where \(H\) has chromatic index \(t\), the proper Ramsey number \(PR(F, H)\) is the smallest positive integer \(n\) such that every \(t\)-edge coloring of \(K_n\) results in a monochromatic \(F\) or a properly colored \(H\). The proper Ramsey number \(PR(F, H)\) is investigated for certain pairs \(F, H\) of connected graphs when \(t = 2\), namely when \(F\) is a complete graph, star, or path and when \(H\) is a path or even cycle of small order. In particular, \(PR(F, H)\) is determined when (1) \(F\) is a complete graph and \(H\) is a path of order 6 or less, (2) \(F\) is a complete graph and \(H\) is a 4-cycle, (3) \(F\) is a star and \(H\) is a 4-cycle or a 6-cycle, and (4) \(F\) is a star and \(H\) is a path of order 8 or less.




