Utilitas Algorithmica (UA)

ISSN: xxxx-xxxx (print)

Utilitas Algorithmica (UA) is a premier, open-access international journal dedicated to advancing algorithmic research and its applications. Launched to drive innovation in computer science, UA publishes high-impact theoretical and experimental papers addressing real-world computational challenges. The journal underscores the vital role of efficient algorithm design in navigating the growing complexity of modern applications. Spanning domains such as parallel computing, computational geometry, artificial intelligence, and data structures, UA is a leading venue for groundbreaking algorithmic studies.

Xiao Feng1,2, Penghao Cao1,2, Liping Yuan1,2
1College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei Normal University, 050024 Shijiazhuang, China.
2Mathematics Research Center of Hebei Province, 050024 Shijiazhuang, China.
Abstract:

An \(H\)-polygon is a simple polygon whose vertices are \(H\)-points, which are points of the set of vertices of a tiling of \(\mathbb{R}^2\) by regular hexagons of unit edge. Let \(G(v)\) denote the least possible number of \(H\)-points in the interior of a convex \(H\)-polygon \(K\) with \(v\) vertices. In this paper, we prove that \(G(8) = 2\), \(G(9) = 4\), \(G(10) = 6\), and \(G(v) \geq \lceil \frac{v^2}{16\pi^2}-\frac{v}{4}+\frac{1}{2}\rceil – 1\) for all \(v \geq 11\), where \(\lceil x \rceil\) denotes the minimal integer more than or equal to \(x\).

Sapna Jain1
1 Department of Mathematics University of Delhi Delhi 110 007 India
Abstract:

Row-cyclic array codes have already been introduced by the author \([9]\). In this paper, we give some special classes of row-cyclic array codes as an extension of classical BCH and Reed-Solomon codes.

Jianxi Liu1
1Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Informatics Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510006, PR China
Abstract:

The harmonic weight of an edge is defined as reciprocal of the average degree of its end-vertices. The harmonic index of a graph \(G\) is defined as the sum of all harmonic weights of its edges. In this work, we give the minimum value of the harmonic index for any \(n\)-vertex connected graphs with minimum degree \(\delta\) at least \(k(\geq n/2)\) and show the corresponding extremal graphs have only two degrees,i.e., degree \(k\)and degree \(n – 1\), and the number of vertices of degree \(k\) is as close to \(n/2\) as possible.

Fatih Yilmaz1, Emrullah Kirklar 1
1Department of Mathematics, Polath Art and Science Faculty, Gazi University,06900 Ankara, Turkey
Abstract:

In this note, we consider one type of \(k\)-tridiagonal matrix family whose permanents and determinants are specified to the balancing and Lucas-balancing numbers. Moreover, we provide some properties between Chebyshev polynomial properties and the given number
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Fu-Tao Hu1, Jun-Ming Xu2
1School of Mathematical Sciences, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China
2School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Wentsun Wu Key Laboratory of CAS, Hefei, 230026, China
Abstract:

Let \(G = (V, E)\) be a graph. A subset \(D \subseteq V\) is a dominating set if every vertex not in \(D\) is adjacent to a vertex in \(D\). The domination number of \(G\) is the smallest cardinality of a dominating set of \(G\). The bondage number of a nonempty graph \(G\) is the smallest number of edges whose removal from \(G\) results in a graph with larger domination number than \(G\). In this paper, we determine that the exact value of the bondage number of an \((n-3)\)-regular graph \(G\) of order \(n\) is \(n-3\).

Abstract:

A graph is closed when its vertices have a labeling by \([n]\) with a certain property first discovered in the study of binomial edge ideals. In this article, we prove that a connected graph has a closed labeling if and only if it is chordal, claw-free, and has a property we call narrow, which holds when every vertex is distance at most one from all longest shortest paths of the graph.

Paola Bonacini1, Lucia Marino1
1UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA, VIALE A. Doria 6, 95125 CaTANtA, ITALY
Abstract:

Let \(\Sigma = (X, \mathcal{B})\) be a \(4\)-cycle system of order \(v = 1 + 8k\). A \(c\)-colouring of type \(s\) is a map \(\phi: \mathcal{B} \to C\), where \(C\) is a set of colours, such that exactly \(c\) colours are used and for every vertex \(x\), all the blocks containing \(x\) are coloured exactly with \(s\) colours. Let \(4k = qs + r\), with \(r \geq 0\). \(\phi\) is equitable if for every vertex \(x\), the set of the \(4k\) blocks containing \(x\) is partitioned into \(r\) colour classes of cardinality \(q + 1\) and \(s – r\) colour classes of cardinality \(q\). In this paper, we study colourings for which \(s | k\), providing a description of equitable block colourings for \(c \in \{s, s+1, \ldots, \lfloor \frac{2s^2+s}{3} \rfloor\}\).

Ziba Eslami1
1Department of Computer Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C. Tehran, IRAN
Hongyan Lu1, Zhongxun Zhu1, Jing Luo1
1College of Mathematics and Statistics, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China
Abstract:

In this paper, we first introduce a linear program on graphical invariants of a graph \(G\). As an application, we attain the extremal graphs with lower bounds on the first Zagreb index \(M_1(G)\), the second Zagreb index \(M_2(G)\), their multiplicative versions \(\Pi_1^*(G)\), \(\Pi_2(G)\), and the atom-bond connectivity index \(ABC(G)\), respectively.

Abstract:

Let \(\Gamma\) be an oriented graph. We denote the in-neighborhood and out-neighborhood of a vertex \(v\) in \(\Gamma\) by \(\Gamma^-(v)\) and \(\Gamma^+(v)\), respectively. We say \(\Gamma\) has Property \(A\) if, for each arc \((u,v)\) in \(\Gamma\), each of the graphs induced by \(\Gamma^+(u) \cap \Gamma^+(v)\), \(\Gamma^-(u) \cap \Gamma^-(v)\), \(\Gamma^-(u) \cap \Gamma^+(v)\), and \(\Gamma^+(u) \cap \Gamma^-(v)\) contains a directed cycle. Moreover, \(\Gamma\) has Property B if each arc \((u,v)\) in \(\Gamma\) extends to a \(3\)-path \((x,u), (u,v), (v,w)\), such that \(|\Gamma^+(x) \cap \Gamma^+(u)| \geq 5\) and \(|\Gamma^-(v) \cap \Gamma^-(w)| \geq 5\). We show that the only oriented graphs of order at most \(17\), which have both properties \(A\) and \(B\), are the Tromp graph \(T_{16}\) and the graph \(T^+_{16}\), obtained by duplicating a vertex of \(T_{16}\). We apply this result to prove the existence of an oriented planar graph with oriented chromatic number at least \(18\).

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