Abdelhamid Amroun1, Hacène Belbachir2, Soumeya. M. Tebtoub2
1Department of Mathematics, Paris-Saclay University, Orsay, France
2Department of Mathematics, RECITS Laboratory, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
Abstract:

In the present paper, we are interested in the distribution of the elements lying along the Raab direction in the binomial coefficients triangle. More precisely, we prove that the sequence \(\{\binom{n-rk}{k}\}_{0\leq k \leq \lfloor n/(r+1)\rfloor}\) is asymptotically distributed according to a Gaussian law. We also provide some experimental evidences.

Zia Ullah Khan1, Te Pi2,3, Rui Sun4, Long-Tu Yuan4,5
1School of Mathematics and Physics, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 201306, China
2School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
3Shanghai Shibei Senior High School, Shanghai 200071, China
4Department of Mathematicss, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
5Key Laboratory of MEA(Ministry of Education) and Shanghai Key Laboratory of PMMP, Shanghai 200241, China
Abstract:

We determine the maximum number of edges of a graph without containing the 2-power of a Hamilton path. Using this result, we establish a spectral condition for a graph containing the 2-power of a Hamilton path. Furthermore, we characterized the extremal graphs with the largest spectral radius that do not contain the 2-power of a Hamilton path.

Runze Wang1
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
Abstract:

We introduce the ID-index of a finite simple connected graph. For a graph \(G=(V,\ E)\) with diameter \(d\), we let \(f:V\longrightarrow \mathbb{Z}\) assign ranks to the vertices. Then under \(f\), each vertex \(v\) gets a string, which is a \(d\)-vector with the \(i\)-th coordinate being the sum of the ranks of the vertices that are of distance \(i\) from \(v\). The ID-index of \(G\), denoted by \(IDI(G)\), is defined to be the minimum number \(k\) for which there is an \(f\) with \(|f(V)|=k\), such that each vertex gets a distinct string under \(f\). We present some relations between ID-graphs, which were defined by Chartrand, Kono, and Zhang, and their ID-indices; give a lower bound on the ID-index of a graph; and determine the ID-indices of paths, grids, cycles, prisms, complete graphs, some complete multipartite graphs, and some caterpillars.

Mateusz Miotk1, Michał Zakrzewski1, Paweł Żyliński1
1University of Gdańsk, Poland
Abstract:

We prove that the class of trees with unique minimum edge-vertex dominating sets is equivalent to the class of trees with unique minimum paired dominating sets.

Vijay Kumar Bhat1, Pradeep Singh2, Shriya Negi1
1School of Mathematics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra-182320, Jammu and Kashmir, India
2Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab-140401, India
Abstract:

We investigate properties and structure of \(zero \ divisor \ graph\) of endomorphism ring of direct product of cyclic groups \(\mathbb{Z}_n\). We provide a method to determine the number of zero divisors of \(End(\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_{2p})\), for some prime \(p\). We proved that minimum distance between any two vertices of \(zero \ divisor \ graph\) of \(End(\mathbb{Z}_m \times \mathbb{Z}_m)\) is 2.

Rao Li1
1Dept. of Computer Science, Engineering and Math, University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, SC 29801, USA
Abstract:

Let \(G = (V, E)\) be a graph. The Gutman-Milovanović index of a graph \(G\) is defined as \(\sum\limits_{uv \in E} (d(u) d(v))^{\alpha}(d(u) + d(v))^{\beta}\), where \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) are any real numbers and \(d(u)\) and \(d(v)\) are the degrees of vertices \(u\) and \(v\) in \(G\), respectively. In this note, we present sufficient conditions based on the Gutman-Milovanović index with \(\alpha > 0\) and \(\beta >0\) for some Hamiltonian properties of a graph. We also present upper bounds for the Gutman-Milovanović index of a graph for different ranges of \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\).

Ce Zhang1, Feng Li1
1School of Computer Science, Qinghai Normal University, Xi’ning, 810000, China
Abstract:

Suppose \(G_1=(V_1, E_1)\) is a graph and \(G_2=(V_2, E_2)\) is a strong digraph of \(G_1\), where \(V_1\) and \(V_2\) represent the vertex sets, \(E_1\) and \(E_2\) represent the edge sets. Let \(u\) and \(v\) be any two vertices of \(G_2\). The strong distance \(sd(u,v)\) is the minimum value of edges in a strong subdiagraph of \(G_2\) that contains \(u\) and \(v\). The minimum strong diameter of \(G_2\) is defined as the maximum eccentricity \(se(u)\) from \(u\) to all other vertices in \(G_2\). In this paper, we propose different strong orientation methods to explore the minimum strong diameter of the strong product graph of \(K_{m_1,m_2,\ldots,m_k}\otimes P_n\), where \(K_{m_1,m_2,\ldots,m_k}\) and \(P_n\) represent respectively complete multipartite graph and path. ‌‌In addition, based on strong orientation methods, a new algorithm is proposed to model the presence or absence of a minimum strong diameter in a strong product graph. Simulation experiments show a trend of simultaneous decrease and concentration in the minimum strong diameter of the strong product graph, as the value of parts in \(K_{m_1,m_2,\ldots,m_k}\) increases while the length of \(P_n\) remains constant.

A. D. Law1, M. C. Lettington1, K. M. Schmidt1
1Cardiff University, School of Mathematics, UK
Abstract:

We consider a joint ordered multifactorisation for a given positive integer \(n\geq 2\) into \(m\) parts, where \(n=n_1~\times~\ldots~\times~n_m\), and each part \(n_j\) is split into one or more component factors. Our central result gives an enumeration formula for all such joint ordered multifactorisations \(\mathcal{N}_m(n)\). As an illustrative application, we show how each such factorisation can be used to uniquely construct and so count the number of distinct additive set systems (historically referred to as complementing set systems). These set systems under set addition generate the first \(n\) non-negative consecutive integers uniquely and, when each component set is centred about 0, exhibit algebraic invariances. For fixed integers \(n\) and \(m\), invariance properties for \(\mathcal{N}_m(n)\) are established. The formula for \(\mathcal{N}_m(n)\) is comprised of sums over associated divisor functions and the Stirling numbers of the second kind, and we conclude by deducing sum over divisor relations for our counting function \(\mathcal{N}_m(n)\). Some related integer sequences are also considered.

Walter Carballosa1, Francisco A. Reyes2, Jessica Khera1
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199 USA
2Mathematics Department, Broward College, 3501 Davie Road, Davie, FL 33314 USA
Abstract:

In this work we study the acyclic orientations of graphs. We obtain an encoding of the acyclic orientations of the complete \(p\)-partite graph with size of its parts \(n_1,n_2,\ldots,n_p\) via a vector with \(p\) symbols and length \(n=n_1+n_2+\ldots+n_p\) when the parts are fixed but not the vertices in each part. We also give a recursive way to construct all acyclic orientations of a complete multipartite graph, this construction can be done by computer easily in order \(\mathcal{O}(n)\). Furthermore, we obtain a closed formula for non-isomorphic acyclic orientations of both the complete multipartite graphs and the complete multipartite graphs with a directed spanning tree. Moreover, we obtain a closed formula for the number of acyclic orientations of a complete multipartite graph \(K_{n_1,\ldots,n_p}\) with labelled vertices. Finally, we obtain a way encode all acyclic orientations of an arbitrary graph as a permutation code. Using the codification mentioned above we obtain sharp upper and lower bounds of the number of acyclic orientations of a graph.

Ahmet Tekcan1
1Bursa Uludag University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Bursa, Turkiye
Abstract:

In this work, we defined almost neo balancing numbers and determined the general terms of them in terms of balancing and Lucas-balancing numbers. We also deduced some results on relationship with triangular, square triangular, Pell, Pell-Lucas numbers and these numbers. Further we formulate the sum of first \(n\)-terms of these numbers.

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