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 085
- Pages: 13-31
- Published: 31/05/2013
A red-blue coloring of a graph \( G \) is an edge coloring of \( G \) in which every edge of \( G \) is colored red or blue. Let \( F \) be a connected graph of size 2 or more with a red-blue coloring, at least one edge of each color, where some blue edge of \( F \) is designated as the root of \( F \). Such an edge-colored graph \( F \) is called a color frame. An \( F \)-coloring of a graph \( G \) is a red-blue coloring of \( G \) in which every blue edge of \( G \) is the root edge of a copy of \( F \) in \( G \). The \( F \)-chromatic index \( \chi’_F(G) \) of \( G \) is the minimum number of red edges in an \( F \)-coloring of \( G \). It has been shown that these concepts generalize both edge domination and matchings in graphs. In this paper, we consider the two color frames \( Y_1 \) and \( Y_2 \) that result from the claw \( K_{1,3} \), where \( Y_1 \) has exactly one red edge and \( Y_2 \) has exactly two red edges. An edge \( e \) in a graph \( G \) is a non-claw edge if \( e \) belongs to no claw in \( G \). It is shown that if \( G \) is a connected graph containing \( \ell \) non-claw edges, then \( \chi’_{Y_1}(G) \leq \chi’_{Y_2}(G) \leq 3\chi’_{Y_1}(G) – 2\ell \) and \( \chi’_{Y_1}(G) = \chi’_{Y_2}(G) \) if and only if \( G \) is a path or cycle. Furthermore, a pair \( a, b \) of positive integers can be realized as the \( Y_1 \)-chromatic index and \( Y_2 \)-chromatic index for some connected graph of order at least 4 if and only if \( a \leq b \leq 3a \) and \( b \geq 2 \).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 447-460
- Published: 30/04/2013
Consider an n-set, say \(X_n = {1,2,…,n}\). An exponential generating function and recurrence relation for the number of subpermutations of \(X_n\), whose orbits are of size at most \(k \geq 0\) are obtained. Similar results for
the number of nilpotent subpermutations of nilpotency index at most \(k\), and exactly \k\) are also given, along with arithmetic and asypmtotic formulas for these numbers. \(1\) \(2\)
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 527-537
- Published: 30/04/2013
In this paper, we show that the crossing number of the complete tripartite graph \(K_{2,4,n}\) is \(6\left\lfloor\frac{n}{2}\right\rfloor \left\lfloor\frac{n-1}{2}\right\rfloor+2n\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 511-526
- Published: 30/04/2013
An \((n \times n)\) matrix \(A = (a_{ij})\) is called a Toeplitz matrix
if it has constant values along all diagonals parallel to the main diagonal.
A directed Toeplitz graph is a digraph with Toeplitz adjacency matrix.
In this paper, we discuss conditions for the existence of Hamiltonian cycles
in directed Toeplitz graphs.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 497-510
- Published: 30/04/2013
For \(n \geq 2\) and a local field \(K\), let \(\Delta_n\) denote the affine building naturally associated to the symplectic group \(\mathrm{Sp}_{n}(K)\). We compute the spectral radius of the subgraph \(Y_n\) of \(\Delta_n\) induced by the special vertices in \(\Delta_n\), from which it follows that \(Y_n\) is an analogue of a family of expanders and is non-amenable.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 485-496
- Published: 30/04/2013
The concept of \(t\)-(v, \(\lambda\)) trades of block designs has been studied in detail. See, for example, A.~S. Hedayat (1990) and Billington (2003). Latin trades have also been extensively studied under various names; see A.~D. Keedwell (2004) for a survey. Recently, Khanban, Mahdian, and Mahmoodian have extended the concept of Latin trades and introduced \(t\)-(\(v, k\)) Latin trades.In this paper, we study the spectrum of possible volumes of these trades, \(S(t, k)\). Firstly, similarly to trades of block designs, we consider \((t+2)\) numbers \(s_i = 2^{i+1}-2^{(t+1)-i} \), \(0 \leq i \leq t+1\), as critical points. Then, we show that \(s_i \in S(t,k)\) for any \(0 \leq i \leq t+1\), and if \(s \in (s_i, s_{i+1}, )\), \(0 \leq i \leq t\), then \(s \notin S(t, t+1)\). As an example, we precisely determine \(S(3, 4)\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 473-483
- Published: 30/04/2013
This paper investigates the relationship between the degree-sum of adjacent vertices, girth, and upper embeddability of graphs, combining it with edge-connectivity. The main result is:
Let \(G\) be a \(k\)-edge-connected simple graph with girth \(g\). If there exists an integer \(m\) (\(1 \leq m \leq g\)) such that for any \(m\) consecutively adjacent vertices \(x_i\) (\(i = 1, 2, \ldots, m\)) in any non-chord cycle \(C\) of \(G\), it holds that
\[\sum\limits_{i=1}^m d_G(x_i) > \frac{mn}{(k-1)^2+2} + \frac{km}{g}+(2-g)m,\]
where \(k = 1, 2, 3, n = |V(G)|\), then \(G\) is upper embeddable and the upper bound is best possible.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 461-472
- Published: 30/04/2013
In this study, we define and investigate the Bivariate Gaussian Fibonacci and Bivariate Gaussian Lucas Polynomials. We derive generating functions, Binet formulas, explicit formulas, and partial derivatives of these polynomials. By defining these bivariate polynomials for special cases, we obtain:\(F_n(x, 1)\) as the Gaussian Fibonacci polynomials,\(L_n(x, 1)\) is the Gaussian Lucas polynomials,\( {F}_{n}(1, 1)\) as the Gaussian Fibonacci numbers, and \( {L}_{n}(1, 1)\) as the Gaussian Lucas numbers, as defined in \([19]\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 433-446
- Published: 30/04/2013
In this paper, we show that the set \(\{E_0(x), E_1(x), \ldots, E_n(x)\}\) of Euler polynomials is a basis for the space of polynomials of degree less than or equal to \(n\). From the properties of Euler basis polynomials, we derive some interesting identities on the product of two Bernoulli and Euler polynomials.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 109
- Pages: 425-432
- Published: 30/04/2013
An \(n\)-colour even composition is defined as an \(n\)-colour composition with even parts. In this paper, we obtain generating functions, explicit formulas, and a recurrence formula for \(n\)-colour even compositions.




