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 037
- Pages: 87-95
- Published: 30/06/1994
Let \(T(m,n)\) denote the number of \(m \times n\) rectangular standard Young tableaux with the property that the difference of any two rows has all entries equal. Let \(T(n) = \sum\limits_{d|n} T(d,n/d)\). We find recurrence relations satisfied by the numbers \(T(m,n)\) and \(\hat{T}(n)\), compute their generating functions, and express them explicitly in some special cases.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 037
- Pages: 75-85
- Published: 30/06/1994
A labeling (function) of a graph \(G\) is an assignment \(f\) of nonnegative integers to the vertices of \(G\). Such a labeling of \(G\) induces a labeling of \(L(G)\), the line graph of \(G\), by assigning to each edge \(uv\) of \(G\) the label \(\lvert f(u) – f(v)\rvert\). In this paper we investigate the iteration of such graph labelings.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 037
- Pages: 65-74
- Published: 30/06/1994
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 037
- Pages: 49-63
- Published: 30/06/1994
In this thesis we examine the \(k\)-equitability of certain graphs. We prove the following: The path on \(n\) vertices, \(P_n\), is \(k\)-equitable for any natural number \(k\). The cycle on \(k\) vertices, \(C_n\), is \(k\)-equitable for any natural number \(k\), if and only if all of the following conditions hold:\(n \neq k\); if \(k \equiv 2, 3 \pmod{4}\) then \(n \neq k-1\);if \(k \equiv 2, 3 \pmod{4}\) then \(n \not\equiv k\pmod{2k}\) The only \(2\)-equitable complete graphs are \(K_1\), \(K_2\), and \(K_3\).
The complete graph on \(n\) vertices, \(K_n\), is not \(k\)-equitable for any natural number \(k\) for which \(3 \leq k < n\).
If \(k \geq n\), then determining the \(k\)-equitability of \(K_n\) is equivalent to solving a well-known open combinatorial problem involving the notching of a metal bar.The star on \(n+1\) vertices, \(S_n\), is \(k\)-equitable for any natural number \(k\).
The complete bipartite graph \(K_{2,n}\) is \(k\)-equitable for any natural number \(k\) if and only if \(n \equiv k-1 \pmod{k}\); or \(n \equiv 0, 1, \ldots, [ k/2 ] – 1 \pmod{k}\);or \(n = \lfloor k/2 \rfloor\) and \(k\) is odd.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 037
- Pages: 33-48
- Published: 30/06/1994
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 037
- Pages: 13-31
- Published: 30/06/1994
The minimal number of triples required to represent all quintuples on an \(n\)-element set is determined for \(n \leq 13\) and all extremal constructions are found. In particular, we establish that there is a unique minimal system on 13 points, namely the 52 collinear triples of the projective plane of order 3.
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- Ars Combinatoria
- Volume 037
- Pages: 3-12
- Published: 30/06/1994
A set \(T\) with a binary operation \(+\) is called an operation set and denoted as \((T, +)\). An operation set \((S, +)\) is called \(q\)-free if \(qx \notin S\) for all \(x \in S\). Let \(\psi_q(T)\) be the maximum possible cardinality of a \(q\)-free operation subset \((S, +)\) of \((T, +)\).
We obtain an algorithm for finding \(\psi_q({N}_n)\), \(\psi_q({Z}_n)\) and \(\psi_q(D_n)\), \(q \in {N}\), where \({N}_n = \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}\), \(( {Z}_n, +_n)\) is the group of integers under addition modulo \(n\) and \((D_n, +_n)\) is the dihedral group of order \(2n\).
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 015
- Pages: 241-254
- Published: 30/04/1994
We survey here results and problems from the reconstruction theory of evolutionary trees, which involve enumeration and inversion.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 015
- Pages: 229-239
- Published: 30/04/1994
It is proved in this paper that for any integer \(n \geq 100\), a \((v,n)\)-IODLS (incomplete orthogonal diagonal Latin squares) exists if and only if \(v \geq 3n+2\). Results for \(n=2\) are also mentioned.
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- Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing
- Volume 015
- Pages: 227-228
- Published: 30/04/1994
In this note, we construct a \((39, \{5,6,7\}, 1)\)-PBD. Thus we have a finite generating set for the PBD-closed set \(N_5^{\infty}\) with at most three inessential elements, where \(N_5^\infty = \{1\} \cup \{v: v \geq 5\}\).




