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 082
- Pages: 263-285
- Published: 31/01/2007
In this paper, a characterization of two classes of \((q, q+1)\)-geometries, that are fully embedded in a projective space \(PG(n, q)\), is obtained. The first class is the one of the \((q,q+1)\)-geometry \(H^{n,m}_q\), having points the points of \(PG(n, q)\) that are not contained in an \(m\)-dimensional subspace \(\Pi[m]\) of \(PG(n, q)\), for \(0 \leq m \leq n-3\), and lines the lines of \(PG(n, q)\) skew to \(\Pi[m]\). The second class is the one of the \((q,q+1)\)-geometry \(SH^{n,m}_q\), having the same point set as \(H^{n,m}_q\), but with \(-1 \leq m \leq n-3\), and lines the lines skew to \(\Pi^{n,m}_q\) that are not contained in a certain partition of the point set of \(SH^{n,m}_q\). Our characterization uses the axiom of Pasch, which is also known as axiom of Veblen-Young. It is a generalization of the characterization for partial geometries satisfying the axiom of Pasch by J. A. Thas and F. De Clerck. A characterization for \(H^{n,m}_q\) was already proved by H. Cuypers. His result however does not include \(SH^{n,m}_q\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 253-261
- Published: 31/01/2007
In this note we construct nested partially balanced incomplete block designs based on \(NC_{m}\)-scheme. Secondly we construct NPBIB designs from a given PBIB design with \(\lambda_{1} = 1\) and \(\lambda_{2} = 0\) with same association scheme for both systems of PBIB designs. Finally, we give some results and examples where the two systems of PBIB designs in NPBIB designs have different association schemes.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 243-252
- Published: 31/01/2007
This paper discusses the covering property and the Uniqueness Property of Minima (UPM) for linear forms in an arbitrary number of variables, with emphasis on the case of three variables (triple loop graph). It also studies the diameter of some families of undirected chordal ring graphs. We focus upon maximizing the number of vertices in the graph for given diameter and degree. We study the result in \([2]\), we find that the family of triple loop graphs of the form \(G(4k^2+2k+1; 1;2k+1; 2k^2)\) has a larger number of nodes for diameter \(k\) than the family \(G(3k^2+3k+1;1;3k+1;3k+2)\) given in \([2]\). Moreover, we show that both families have the Uniqueness Property of Minima.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 237-241
- Published: 31/01/2007
In this paper, an algorithm based on. trades is presented to classify two classes of large sets of \(t\)-designs, namely \(LS[14](2, 5, 10)\) and \(LS[6](3, 5, 12)\).
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 223-235
- Published: 31/01/2007
In this work, we study which tubular surfaces verify that the embeddings of infinite, locally finite connected graphs without vertex accumulation points are embeddings without edge accumulation points. Furthermore, we characterize the graphs which admit embeddings with no edge accumulation points in the sphere with \(n\) ends in terms of forbidden subgraphs.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 211-221
- Published: 31/01/2007
In this paper, self-centered, bi-eccentric splitting graphs are characterized. Further various bounds for domination number, global domination number and the neighborhood number of these graphs are obtained.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 201-210
- Published: 31/01/2007
In this study we are going to give a new \((t,k)\)-geodetic set definition. This is a refinement of the geodetic set definition given in \([11]\). With this new definition we obtain more information about the graph. We also give a relationship between the \((t,k)\)-geodetic set and the integrity of a graph. By using a \((t,k)\)-geodetic set we give a new proof for the upper bound of integrity of trees and unicycle graphs.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 193-199
- Published: 31/01/2007
For a long time we had thought that there does not exist an OGDD of type \(4^4\). In this article, an OGDD of type \(4^4\) will be constructed.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 082
- Pages: 165-179
- Published: 31/01/2007
Consider a tree \(T = (V, E)\) with root \(r \in V\) and \(|V| = N\). Let \(p_v\) be the probability that a user wants to access node \(v\). A bookmark is an additional link from \(r\) to any other node of \(T\). We want to add \(k\) bookmarks to \(T\), so as to minimize the expected access cost from \(r\), measured by the average length of the shortest path. We present a characterization of an optimal assignment of \(k\) bookmarks in a perfect binary tree with uniform probability distribution of access and \(k \leq \sqrt{N + 1}\).
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- Utilitas Mathematica
- Volume 082
- Pages: 159-163
- Published: 31/01/2007
We show various combinatorial identities that are generated by tree counting arguments. In particular, we give formulas for \(n^p\) and \(\tau(K_{s,t})\) which establishes an equivalence.




