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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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 289-295
- Published: 28/02/2015
Unlike an ordinary fuzzy set, the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), characterized both by a membership degree and by a non-membership degree, is a more flexible way to capture uncertainty. In this paper, we have classified the states of intuitionistic Markov chain (IMC) [1] and analyzed the long-run behavior of the system.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 283-288
- Published: 29/02/2016
A grid is a large-scale geographically distributed hardware and software infrastructure composed of heterogeneous networked resources owned and shared by multiple administrative organizations which are coordinated to provide transparent, dependable, pervasive and consistent computing support to a wide range of applications. One of the major problems in graph theory is to find the oriented diameter of a graph \(G\), which is defined as the smallest diameter among the diameter of all strongly connected orientations. The problem is proved to be NP-complete. In this paper, we obtain the oriented diameter of grids.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 275-281
- Published: 28/02/2015
By a \((1,1)\) edge-magic labeling of a graph \( G(V, E) \), we mean a bijection \( f \) from \( V \cup E \) to \(\{1, \dots, |V| + |E|\}\) such that for all edges \( uv \in E(G) \), the value \( f(u) + f(v) + f(uv) \) is constant. We provide a different proof of a well-known result in additive number theory by Paul Erdős and, interestingly, demonstrate a practical application of this result. Additionally, we make some progress using computational methods towards the conjecture proposed by Yegnanarayanan: “Every graph on \( p \geq 9 \) vertices can be embedded as a subgraph of some \((1,1)\) edge-magic graph” raised by Yegnanarayanan.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 265-274
- Published: 28/02/2015
In this paper, an \( n \times n \) fully fuzzy linear system is solved by decomposing the positive definite symmetric coefficient matrix using trapezoidal fuzzy number matrices through Cholesky and LDLT decomposition methods. The effectiveness of these methods is illustrated with a numerical example.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 255-264
- Published: 28/02/2015
Given an undirected 2-edge connected graph, finding a minimum 2-edge connected spanning subgraph is NP-hard. We solve the problem for Butterfly network, Benes network, Honeycomb network and Sierpiński gasket graph.
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- Volume 092
- Pages: 243-253
- Published: 28/02/2015
The Terminal Wiener index \( TW(G) \) of a graph \( G \) is defined as the sum of the distances between all pairs of pendant vertices. In this paper, we derive an explicit formula for calculating the Terminal Wiener index for Detour-saturated trees and Nanostar Dendrimers.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 233-242
- Published: 28/02/2015
Let \(G(V,E)\) be a graph. A set \(W \subset V\) of vertices resolves a graph \(G\) if every vertex of \(G\) is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in \(W\). The metric dimension of \(G\) is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set. By imposing conditions on \(W\) we get conditional resolving sets.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 223-231
- Published: 28/02/2015
A proper vertex coloring (no two adjacent vertices have the same color) of a graph \( G \) is said to be acyclic if the induced subgraph of any two color classes is acyclic. The minimum number of colors required for an acyclic coloring of a graph \( G \) is called its acyclic chromatic number and is denoted by \( a(G) \). In this paper, we determine the exact value of the acyclic chromatic number for the central and total graphs of the path \( P_n \), and the Fan graph \( F_{m,n} \).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 215-222
- Published: 28/02/2015
Eigenvalues of a graph are the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. The multiset of eigenvalues is called the \({spectrum}\). The energy of a graph is defined as the sum of the absolute values of its eigenvalues. In this paper, we devise an algorithm that generates the adjacency matrix of \( WK \)-recursive structures \( WK(3, L) \) and \( WK(4, L) \), and use it to effectively compute the spectrum and energy of these graphs.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 092
- Pages: 207-213
- Published: 28/02/2017
Given a connected \((p, q)\) graph with a number of central vertices, form a new graph \(G^*\) as follows: \(V(G^*) = V(G)\); Delete all the edges of \(G\). Introduce an edge between every central vertex to each and every non-central vertex of \(G\); allow every pair of central vertices to be adjacent. In this paper, we probed \(G^*\) and deduced a number of results.




