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 111
- Pages: 323-337
- Published: 31/07/2013
Our paper deals about identities involving Bell polynomials. Some identities on Bell polynomials derived using generating function and
successive derivatives of binomial type sequences. We give some relations between Bell polynomials and binomial type sequences in
first part, and, we generalize the results obtained in \([4]\) in second part.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 315-322
- Published: 31/07/2013
Fouquet and Jolivet conjectured that if \(G\) is a \(k\)-connected \(n\)-vertex graph with independence number \(\alpha \geq k \geq 2\), then \(G\) has circumference at least \( \frac{k(n+\alpha-k)}{\alpha} \). This conjecture was recently proved by \(O\), West, and Wu.
In this note, we consider the set of \(k\)-connected \(n\)-vertex graphs with independence number \(\alpha > k \geq 2\) and circumference exactly \( \frac{k(n+\alpha-k)}{\alpha} \). We show that all of these graphs have a similar structure.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 305-313
- Published: 31/07/2013
Let \(\Gamma\) be the rank three \(M_{24}\) maximal \(2\)-local geometry. For the two conjugacy types of involution in \(M_{24}\), we describe the fixed point sets of chambers in \(\Gamma\).
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 289-303
- Published: 31/07/2013
In this paper, all connected graphs with the fourth largest signless-Laplacian eigenvalue less than two are determined.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 273-288
- Published: 31/07/2013
The Lights Out game on a graph \(G\) is played as follows. Begin with a (not necessarily proper) coloring of \(V(G)\) with elements of \(\mathbb{Z}_2\). When a vertex is toggled, that vertex and all adjacent vertices change their colors from \(0\) to \(1\) or vice-versa. The game is won when all vertices have color \(0\). The winnability of this game is related to the existence of a parity dominating set.
We generalize this game to \(\mathbb{Z}_k\), \(k \geq 2\), and use this to define a generalization of parity dominating sets. We determine all paths, cycles, and complete bipartite graphs in which the game over \(\mathbb{Z}_k\) can be won regardless of the initial coloring, and we determine a constructive method for creating all caterpillar graphs in which the Lights Out game cannot always be won.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 265-272
- Published: 31/07/2013
A total coloring of a simple graph \(G\) is a coloring of both the edges and the vertices. A total coloring is proper if no two adjacent or incident elements receive the same color.The minimum number of colors required for a proper total coloring of \(G\) is called the total chromatic number of \(G\) and denoted by \(\chi_t(G)\). The Total Coloring Conjecture (TCC) states that for every simple graph \(G\),\(\Delta(G) + 1 \leq \chi_t(G) \leq \Delta(G) + 2.\) \(G\) is called Type \(1\) (resp. Type \(2\)) if \(\chi_t(G) = \Delta(G) +1\) (resp. \(\chi_t(G) = \Delta(G) + 2\)). In this paper, we prove that the folded hypercubes \(FQ_n\), is of Type \(1\) when \(n \geq 4\).
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 257-264
- Published: 31/07/2013
Let \(H\) be a simple graph with \(n\) vertices and \(\mathcal{G} = \{G_1, G_2, \ldots, G_n\}\) be a sequence of \(n\) rooted graphs.
Following Godsil and McKay (Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. \(18 (1978) 21-28\)) defined the the rooted product \(H({G})\) of \(H\) by \({G}\) is defined by identifying the root of \(G_i\) with the \(i\)th vertex of \(H\).In this paper, we calculate the Wiener index of \(H({G})\), i.e., the sum of distances between all pairs of vertices, in terms of the Wiener indices of \(G_i\), \(i = 1, 2, \ldots, k\).As an application, we derive a recursive relation for computing the Wiener index of Generalized Bethe trees.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 251-256
- Published: 31/07/2013
Let \(G\) be a connected graph with \(p\) vertices and \(q\) edges.A \(\gamma\)-labeling of \(G\) is a one-to-one function f from \(V(G)\) to \({0,1,…,q}\) that induces a labeling \(f’\) from \(V(G)\) to \({1,2,…,q}\) defined by \(f(e) = |f(u) – f(v)|\) for each edge \(e = uv\) of \(G\). The value of a \(\gamma\)-labeling \(f\) is defined to be the sum of the values of \(f’\) over all
edges. Also, the maximum value of a \(\gamma\)-labeling of \(G\) is defined as the maximum of the values among all \(\gamma\)-labelings of \(G,\) while the minimum value is the minimum of the values among all \(\gamma\)-labelings
of \(G\). In this paper, the maximum value and minimum value are determined for any complete bipartite graph.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 241-250
- Published: 31/07/2013
A labeling f of a graph G is a bijection from its edge set \(E(G)\) to the set \(\{1, 2, …, |E(G)|\}\), which is antimagic if for any distinct vertices \(x\) and \(y\), the sum of the labels on edges incident to \(x\) is different from the sum of the labels on edges incident to \(y\). A graph G is antimagic if \(G\) has an f which is antimagic. Hartsfield and Ringel conjectured in \(1990\)
that every connected graph other than Ko is antimagic. In this paper, we show that some graphs with regular subgraphs are antimagic.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 225-239
- Published: 31/07/2013
In \([1]\), the author provided a Gray code for the set of \(n\)-length permutations with a given number of left-to-right minima in in-version array representation. In this paper, we give the first Gray code for the set of \(n\)-length permutations with a given number of left-to-right minima in one-line representation. In this code, each permutation is transformed into its successor by a product with a transposition or a cycle of length three. Also a generating algorithm for this code is given.




