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 129
- Pages: 19-31
- Published: 31/10/2016
In this paper we introduce a new kind of two-parameters generalization of Pell numbers. We give two distinct graph interpretations and prove some identities for these numbers. Moreover we define matrix generators and derive the generalized Cassini formula for the introduced numbers.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 129
- Pages: 3-17
- Published: 31/10/2016
A graph is said to be a neighbourly irregular graph (or simply an NI graph) if no two adjacent vertices have the same degree. In this paper, we introduce the neighbourly regular strength of a graph. Let \(G\) be a simple graph of order \(n\). Let \(NI(G)\) denote the set of all NI graphs in which \(G\) is an induced subgraph. The neighbourly regular strength of \(G\) is denoted by \(NRS(G)\) and is defined as the minimum \(k\) for which there is an NI graph \(NI(G)\) of order \(n+k\) in \(NI(G)\). We prove that the \(NRS(G)\) is at most \(n-1\), with possible equality only if \(G\) is complete. In addition, we determine the \(NRS\) for some well-known graphs.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 343-349
- Published: 31/08/2016
We first introduce the concept of \((k, k’, k”)\)-domination numbers in graphs, which is a generalization of many domination parameters. Then we find lower and upper bounds for this parameter, which improve many well-known results in the literature.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 327-342
- Published: 31/08/2016
We are interested in ordering the elements of a subset \( A \) of the non-zero integers modulo \( n \) in such a way that all the partial sums are distinct. We conjecture that this can always be done, and we prove various partial results about this problem.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 319-325
- Published: 31/08/2016
A graph \( G \) with maximum degree \( \Delta \) and edge chromatic number \( \chi'(G) > \Delta \) is \emph{edge-\(\Delta\)-critical} if \( \chi'(G-e) = \Delta \) for each \( e \in E(G) \). In this article, we provide a new proof of adjacency Lemmas on edge-critical graphs such that Vizing’s adjacency lemma becomes a corollary of our results.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 299-317
- Published: 31/08/2016
This paper surveys recent results for flag enumeration of polytopes, Bruhat graphs, balanced digraphs, Whitney stratified spaces and quasi-graded posets.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 279-297
- Published: 31/08/2016
A bipancyclic graph on \( v \) vertices is a bipartite graph that contains, as subgraphs, cycles of length \( n \) for every even integer \( n \) such that \( 4 \leq n \leq v \). Such a graph is uniquely bipancyclic if it contains exactly one subgraph of each permissible length.
In this paper, we find all uniquely bipancyclic graphs on 30 or fewer vertices.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 271-278
- Published: 31/08/2016
A balanced complete bipartite graph is a complete bipartite graph where the degrees of its vertices differ by at most 1. In a red-blue-green coloring of the edges of a graph \( G \), every edge of \( G \) is colored red, blue, or green. For three graphs \( F_1 \), \( F_2 \), and \( F_3 \), the 2-Ramsey number \( R_2(F_1, F_2, F_3) \) of \( F_1 \), \( F_2 \), and \( F_3 \), if it exists, is the smallest order of a balanced complete bipartite graph \( G \) such that every red-blue-green coloring of the edges of \( G \) contains a red \( F_1 \), a blue \( F_2 \), or a green \( F_3 \). In this note, we determine that
\[
20 \leq R_2(C_4, C_4, C_4) \leq 21.
\]
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 253-270
- Published: 31/08/2016
A Hamiltonian graph \( G \) is said to be \(\ell\)-path-Hamiltonian, where \(\ell\) is a positive integer less than or equal to the order of \( G \), if every path of order \(\ell\) in \( G \) is a subpath of some Hamiltonian cycle in \( G \). The Hamiltonian cycle extension number of \( G \) is the maximum positive integer \(\ell\) for which every path of order \(\ell\) or less is a subpath of some Hamiltonian cycle in \( G \). If the order of \( G \) equals \( n \), then it is known that \( \text{hce}(G) = n \) if and only if \( G \) is a cycle or a regular complete bipartite graph (when \( n \) is even) or a complete graph. We present a complete characterization of Hamiltonian graphs of order \( n \) that are \(\ell\)-path-Hamiltonian for each \(\ell \in \{n-3, n-2, n-1, n\}\).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 098
- Pages: 239-252
- Published: 31/08/2016
Let \( G \) be an edge-colored connected graph. A path \( P \) is a proper path in \( G \) if no two adjacent edges of \( P \) are colored the same. An edge coloring is a proper-path coloring of \( G \) if every pair \( u, v \) of distinct vertices of \( G \) is connected by a proper \( u-v \) path in \( G \). The minimum number of colors required for a proper-path coloring of \( G \) is the proper connection number \( \text{pc}(G) \) of \( G \). We study proper-path colorings in those graphs obtained by some well-known graph operations, namely line graphs, powers of graphs, coronas of graphs, and vertex or edge deletions. Proper connection numbers are determined for all iterated line graphs and powers of a given connected graph. For a connected graph \( G \), sharp lower and upper bounds are established for the proper connection number of (i) the \( k \)-iterated corona of \( G \) in terms of \( \text{pc}(G) \) and \( k \), and (ii) the vertex or edge deletion graphs \( G-v \) and \( G-e \), where \( v \) is a non-cut-vertex of \( G \) and \( e \) is a non-bridge of \( G \), in terms of \( \text{pc}(G) \) and the degree of \( v \). Other results and open questions are also presented.




