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 080
- Pages: 215-221
- Published: 31/07/2006
A graph \(G\) on \(n\) vertices has a prime labeling if its vertices can be assigned the distinct labels \(1, 2, \ldots, n\) such that for every edge \(xy\) in \(G\), the labels of \(x\) and \(y\) are relatively prime. In this paper, we show that generalized books and \(C_m\) snakes all have prime labelings. In the process, we demonstrate a way to build new prime graphs from old ones.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 080
- Pages: 205-214
- Published: 31/07/2006
In this paper, we studied that a linear space, which is the complement of a linear space having points are not on a trilateral or a quadrilateral in a projective subplane of order \(m\), is embeddable in a unique way in a projective plane of order \(n\). In addition, we showed that this linear space is the complement of certain regular hyperbolic plane in the sense of Graves \([5]\) with respect to a finite projective plane.
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 201-204
- Published: 31/07/2006
We give a combinatorial proof of Wilson’s Theorem: \(p\) divides \(\{(p – 1)! +1\}\) if \(p\) is prime.
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 193-199
- Published: 31/07/2006
The Padmakar-Ivan (PI) index of a graph \(G\) is defined as \(PI(G) = \sum[n_{eu} (e|G) + n_{ev}(e|G)]\) where \(n_{eu}(e|G)\) is the number of edges of \(G\) lying closer to \(u\) than to \(v\), \(n_{ev}(e|G)\) is the number of edges of \(G\) lying closer to \(v\) than to \(u\), and the summation goes over all edges of \(G\). The PI Index is a Szeged-like topological index developed very recently. In this paper, an exact expression for the PI index of the armchair polyhex nanotubes is given.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 080
- Pages: 189-191
- Published: 31/07/2006
A finite planar set is \(k\)-isosceles for \(k \geq 3\), if every \(k\)-point subset of the set contains a point equidistant from the other two. This paper gives a \(4\)-isosceles set consisting of \(7\) points with no three on a line and no four on a circle.
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 177-187
- Published: 31/07/2006
For a group \(T\) and a subset \(S\) of \(T\), the bi-Cayley graph \(\text{BCay}(T, S)\) of \(T\) with respect to \(S\) is the bipartite graph with vertex set \(T \times \{0, 1\}\) and edge set \(\{\{(g, 0), (ag, 1)\} | g \in T, s \in S\}\). In this paper, we investigate cubic bi-Cayley graphs of finite nonabelian simple groups. We give several sufficient or necessary conditions for a bi-Cayley graph to be semisymmetric, and construct several infinite families of cubic semisymmetric graphs.
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 153-175
- Published: 31/07/2006
We study the notion of path-congruence \(\Phi: T_1 \rightarrow T_2\) between two trees \(T_1\) and \(T_2\). We introduce the concept of the trunk of a tree, and prove that, for any tree \(T\), the trunk and the periphery of \(T\) are stable. We then give conditions for which the center of \(T\) is stable. One such condition is that the central vertices have degree \(2\). Also, the center is stable when the diameter of \(T\) is less than \(8\).
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 147-152
- Published: 31/07/2006
We call a cycle whose length is at most \(5\) a short cycle. In this paper, we consider the packing of short cycles in a graph with specified edges. A minimum degree condition is obtained, which is slightly weaker than that of the result in \([1]\).
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 141-146
- Published: 31/07/2006
Let \(G\) be a graph with vertex set \(V(G)\) and let \(f\) be a nonnegative integer-valued function defined on \(V(G)\). A spanning subgraph \(F\) of \(G\) is called a fractional \(f\)-factor if \(d_G^{h}(x) = f(x)\) for every \(x \in V(F)\). In this paper, we prove that if \(\delta(G) \geq b\) and \(\alpha(G) \leq \frac{4a(\delta-b)}{(b+1)^2}\), then \(G\) has a fractional \(f\)-factor. Where \(a\) and \(b\) are integers such that \(0 \leq a \leq f(x) \leq b\) for every \(x \in V(G)\). Therefore, we prove that the fractional analogue of Conjecture in \([2]\) is true.
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- Volume 080
- Pages: 129-139
- Published: 31/07/2006
Let \(D\) be a connected symmetric digraph, \(A\) a finite abelian group, \(g \in A\) and \(\Gamma\) a group of automorphisms of \(D\). We consider the number of \(T\)-isomorphism classes of connected \(g\)-cyclic \(A\)-covers of \(D\) for an element \(g\) of odd order. Specifically, we enumerate the number of \(I\)-isomorphism classes of connected \(g\)-cyclic \(A\)-covers of \(D\) for an element \(g\) of odd order and the trivial automorphism group \(\Gamma\) of \(D\), when \(A\) is the cyclic group \({Z}_{p^n}\) and the direct sum of \(m\) copies of \({Z}_p\) for any prime number \(p (> 2)\).




