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.

Maref Y.M.Alzoubi1
1Department of Mathematics Yarmouk University Irbid-Jordan
Abstract:

The basis number of a graph \(G\) is defined to be the least positive integer \(d\) such that \(G\) has a \(d\)-fold basis for the cycle space of \(G\).

In this paper, we prove that the basis number of the Cartesian product of different ladders is exactly \(4\). However, if we apply Theorem \(4.1\) of Ali and Marougi \([4]\), which is stated in the introduction as Theorem \(1.1\), we find that the basis number of the circular and Möbius ladders with circular ladders and Möbius ladders is less than or equal to \(5\), and the basis number of ladders with circular ladders and circular ladders with circular ladders is at most \(4\).

M. Bergerson1, A. Miller1, A. Pliml1, V. Reiner1, P. Shearer1, D. Stanton1, N. Switala1
1ScHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55455, USA
Abstract:

It is shown that there are \(\binom{2n-r-1}{n-r}\) noncrossing partitions of an \(n\)-set together with a distinguished block of size \(r\), and \(\binom{n}{k-1}\binom{n-r-1}{k-2}\) of these have \(k\) blocks, generalizing a result of Béna on partitions with one crossing. Furthermore, specializing natural \(q\)-analogues of these formulae with \(q\) equal to certain \(d^{th}\) roots of unity gives the number of such objects having \(d\)-fold rotational symmetry.

A.P. Santhakumaran1, P. Titus2
1Department of Mathematics St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Palayamkottai – 627 002, Tamil Nadu, India.
2Department of Mathematics St.Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering Chunkankadai – 629 807, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:

In this paper, we introduce the concept of geodesic graph at a vertex of a connected graph and investigate its properties. We determine the bounds for the number of edges of the geodesic graph. We prove that an edge of a graph is a cut edge if and only if it is a cut edge of each of its geodesic graphs. Also, we characterize a bipartite graph as well as a geodetic graph in terms of its geodesic graph.

Guanghui Wang1,2, Guizhen Liu1
1School of Mathematics and System Science Shandong University Jinan Shandong 250100, China
2Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique UMR 8628, C.N.B.S.-Université de Paris-sud 91405-Orsay cedex, France
Abstract:

In this paper, we study the circular choosability recently introduced by Mohar \([5]\) and Zhu \([11]\). In this paper, we show that the circular choosability of planar graphs with girth at least \(\frac{10n+8}{3}\) is at most \(2 + \frac{2}{n}\), which improves the earlier results.

Lutz Volkmann 1
1Lehrstuhl II fiir Mathematik, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany
Abstract:

An orientation of a simple graph \(G\) is called an oriented graph. If \(D\) is an oriented graph, \(\delta(D)\) its minimum degree and \(\lambda(D)\) its edge-connectivity, then \(\lambda(D) \leq \delta(D)\). The oriented graph is called maximally edge-connected if \(\lambda(D) = \delta(D)\) and super-edge-connected, if every minimum edge-cut is trivial. If \(D\) is an oriented graph with the property that the underlying graph \(G(D)\) contains no complete subgraph of order \(p+1\), then we say that the clique number \(\omega(D)\) of \(D\) is less or equal \(p\).

In this paper, we present degree sequence conditions for maximally edge-connected and super-edge-connected oriented graphs \(D\) with clique number \(\omega(D) \leq p\) for an integer \(p \geq 2\).

Zhiwen Wang1,2, Jaeun Lee2, Jingwen Li3, Fei Wen3
1School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, P.R.China.
2Department of Mathematics of Yeungnam University, Daedong, Kyongsan, Kyongbuk, 712-749, Korea
3Department of Mathematics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, 730070, P.R.China
Abstract:

A proper total coloring of a graph \(G\) is called Smarandachely adjacent vertex total coloring of graph if for any two adjacent and distinct vertices \(u\) and \(v\) in \(G\), the set of colors assigned to the vertices and the edges incident to \(u\) doesn’t contain the set of colors assigned to the vertices and the edges incident to \(v\), vice versa. The minimal number of colors required for a Smarandachely adjacent vertex total coloring of graph is called the Smarandachely adjacent vertex total chromatic number of graph. In this paper, we define a kind of \(3\)-regular Multilayer Cycle \(Re(n,m)\) and obtain the Smarandachely adjacent vertex total chromatic number of it.

S. Bonvicini1, G. Mazzuoccolo2
1Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali Cognitive e Quantitative, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, via Allegri 9, 42100 Reggio Emilia (Italy)
2Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, via Campi 213/B, 41100 Modena (Italy)
Abstract:

A perfectly one-factorable (PIF) regular graph \(G\) is a graph admitting a partition of the edge-set into one-factors such that the union of any two of them is a Hamiltonian cycle. We consider the case in which \(G\) is a cubic graph. The existence of a PIF cubic graph is guaranteed for each admissible value of the number of vertices. We give conditions for determining PIF graphs within a subfamily of generalized Petersen graphs.

K. Uslu1, N. Taskara1, H. Kose1
1Selcuk University, Science Faculty, Department of Mathematics, 42075, Campus, Konya, Turkey
Abstract:

In this paper, we give the generalization \(\{G_{k,n}\}_{n\in N }\) of \(k\)-Fibonacci and \(k\)-Lucas numbers. After that, by using this generalization, some new algebraic properties on these numbers have been obtained.

Abstract:

Let \(K_q(n, R)\) denote the least cardinality of a \(q\)-ary code of length \(n\), such that every \(q\)-ary word of length \(n\) differs from at least one word in the code in at most \(R\) places. We use a method of Blass and Litsyn to derive the bounds \(K_4(5,2) \geq 14\) and \(K_4(6,2) \geq 32\).

T.Aaron Gulliver1
1T.A. Gulliver is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Uni- versity of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada, V8W 3P6
Abstract:

Let \(d_{q}(n,k)\) be the maximum possible minimum Hamming distance of a linear \([n, k]\) code over \(\mathbb{F}_q\). Tables of best known linear codes exist for all fields up to \(q = 9\). In this paper, linear codes over \(\mathbb{F}_{11}\) are constructed for \(k\) up to \(7\). The codes constructed are from the class of quasi-twisted codes. These results show that there exists a \((78,8)\) arc in \(\text{PG}(2,11)\). In addition, the minimum distances of the extended quadratic residue codes of lengths \(76\), \(88\) and \(108\) are determined.

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