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: 75-84
- Published: 31/07/2013
Let \(\mathcal{G}\) be a family of graphs. The anti-Ramsey number \(\text{AR}(n, \mathcal{G})\) for \(\mathcal{G}\) is the maximum number
of colors in an edge coloring of \(K_n\) that has no rainbow copy of
any graph in \(\mathcal{G}\). In this paper, we determine the bipartite anti-Ramsey number for the family of trees with
\(k\) edges.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 111
- Pages: 65-74
- Published: 31/07/2013
Let \(G\) be a finite group of order \(n\) and \(S\) (possibly containing the identity element) be a subset of \(G\). The Bi-Cayley graph
\(\text{BC}(G, S)\) of \(G\) is a bipartite graph with vertex set \(G \times \{0, 1\}\) and edge set \(\{(g, 0), (gs, 1) \mid g \in G, s \in S\}\). Let \(p\) (\(0 < p < 1\)) be a fixed number.We define \({B} = \{\text{BC}(G, S) \mid S \subseteq G\}\)
as a sample space and assign a probability measure by requiring \(P_r(X) = p^k q^{n-k}\) for \(X = \text{BC}(G, S)\) with \(|S| = k\),
where \(q = 1-p\). It is shown that the probability of the set of Bi-Cayley graphs of \(G\) with diameter \(3\) approaches \(1\) as the order \(n\) of \(G\) approaches infinity.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 111
- Pages: 53-63
- Published: 31/07/2013
In this study, we define and investigate the Gaussian Jacobsthal and Gaussian Jacobsthal Lucas numbers. We derive generating functions, Binet formulas, explicit formulas, and matrix representations for these numbers. Additionally, we present explicit combinatorial and determinantal expressions, examine negatively subscripted numbers, and establish various identities. Our results parallel those for the Jacobsthal and Jacobsthal Lucas numbers, yielding interesting consequences for the Gaussian Jacobsthal and Gaussian Jacobsthal Lucas numbers.
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 37-52
- Published: 31/07/2013
A signed total \(k\)-dominating function of a graph \(G = (V, E)\) is a function \(f: V \rightarrow \{+1, -1\}\) such that for every vertex \(v\), the sum of the values of \(f\) over the open neighborhood of \(v\) is at least \(k\). A signed total \(k\)-dominating function \(f\) is minimal if there does not exist a signed total \(k\)-dominating function \(g\), \(f \neq g\), for which \(g(v) \leq f(v)\) for every \(v \in V\).The weight of a signed total \(k\)-dominating function is \(w(f) = \sum_{v \in V} f(v)\). The signed total \(k\)-domination number of \(G\), denoted by \(\gamma_{t,k}^s(G)\), is the minimum weight of a signed total \(k\)-dominating function on \(G\).The upper signed total \(k\)-domination number \(\Gamma_{t,k}^s(G)\) of \(G\) is the maximum weight of a minimal signed total \(k\)-dominating function on \(G\).
In this paper, we present sharp lower bounds on \(\gamma_{t,k}^s(G)\) for general graphs and \(K_{r+1}\)-free graphs and characterize the extremal graphs attaining some lower bounds. Also, we give a sharp upper bound on \(\Gamma_{t,k}^s(G)\) for an arbitrary graph.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 111
- Pages: 33-36
- Published: 31/07/2013
We show that a \(2\)-subset-regular self-complementary \(3\)-uniform hypergraph with \(7\) vertices exists if and only if \(n \geq 6\) and \(n\) is congruent to \(2\) modulo \(4\).
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- Volume 111
- Pages: 13-31
- Published: 31/07/2013
Given a graph \(G\), a function \(f: V(G) \to \{1, 2, \ldots, k\}\) is a \(k\)-ranking of \(G\) if \(f(u) = f(v)\) implies every \(u-v\)
path contains a vertex \(w\) such that \(f(w) > f(u)\). A \(k\)-ranking is minimal if the reduction of any label greater
than \(1\) violates the described ranking property.The \(arank\) number of a graph, denoted \(\psi_r(G)\),
is the maximum \(k\) such that \(G\) has a minimal \(k\)-ranking.We establish new properties for minimal rankings and present
new results for the \(arank\) number of a cycle.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 111
- Pages: 3-12
- Published: 31/07/2013
In this paper, we prove that the connectivity and the edge connectivity of the lexicographic product of two graphs \(G_1\) and \(G_2\) are equal to \(\kappa_1 v_2\) and \(\min\{\lambda_1 v_2^2, \delta_2 + \delta_1v_2\}\), respectively, where \(\delta_i\), \(\kappa_i\), \(\lambda_i\), and \(n_i\) denote the minimum degree, connectivity, edge-connectivity, and number of vertices of \(G_i\), respectively.
We also obtain that the edge-connectivity of the direct product of \(K_2\) and a graph \(H\) is equal to \(\min\{2\lambda, 2\beta, \min_{j =\lambda}^\delta\{j + 2\beta_j\}\}\), where \(\theta\) is the minimum size of a subset \(F \subset E(H)\) such that \(H – F\) is bipartite and \(\beta_j = \min\{\beta(C)\}\), where \(C\) takes over all components of \(H – B\) for all edge-cuts \(B\) of size \(j \geq \lambda=\lambda (H)\).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 085
- Pages: 365-377
- Published: 31/05/2013
The induced path number \( \rho(G) \) of a graph \( G \) is defined as the minimum number of subsets into which the vertex set of \( G \) can be partitioned so that each subset induces a path. A Nordhaus-Gaddum type result is a (tight) lower or upper bound on the sum (or product) of a parameter of a graph and its complement. If \( G \) is a subgraph of \( H \), then the graph \( H – E(G) \) is the complement of \( G \) relative to \( H \). In this paper, we consider Nordhaus-Gaddum type results for the parameter \( \rho \) when the relative complement is taken with respect to the complete bipartite graph \( K_{m,n} \).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 085
- Pages: 353-363
- Published: 31/05/2013
Rado constructed a (simple) denumerable graph \( R \) with the positive integers as vertex set with the following edges: For given \( m \) and \( n \) with \( m < n \), \( m \) is adjacent to \( n \) if \( n \) has a \( 1 \) in the \( m \)'th position of its binary expansion. It is well known that \( R \) is a universal graph in the set \( \mathcal{I} \) of all countable graphs (since every graph in \( \mathcal{I} \) is isomorphic to an induced subgraph of \( R \)) and that \( R \) can be characterized using this notion and that of being homogeneous and having the extension property. In this paper, we extend these notions to arbitrary induced-hereditary properties (of graphs), relate them to the construction of a universal graph for any such property, and obtain results which remind one of some characterizations of \( R \).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 085
- Pages: 345-352
- Published: 31/05/2013
In this note, we prove that for any tree \( T \), \( \gamma_{\leq2}(T) \leq \gamma_\gamma(T) \leq ir(T) \leq \gamma(T) \), where \( \gamma_{\leq2}(G) \) is the distance-2 domination number, \( ir(T) \) is the (lower) irredundance number, \( \gamma(T) \) is the domination number, and \( \gamma_\gamma(T) \), newly defined here, equals the minimum cardinality of a set of vertices that dominates a minimum dominating set of \( T \).




