{"title":"Optimal Strategies for Static Black-Peg AB Game with Two and Three Pegs","authors":"Gerold Jager, F. Drewes","doi":"10.1142/s1793830923500490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830923500490","url":null,"abstract":"The AB~Game is a game similar to the popular game Mastermind. We study a version of this game called Static Black-Peg AB~Game. It is played by two players, the codemaker and the codebreaker. The codemaker creates a so-called secret by placing a color from a set of $c$ colors on each of $p le c$ pegs, subject to the condition that every color is used at most once. The codebreaker tries to determine the secret by asking questions, where all questions are given at once and each question is a possible secret. As an answer the codemaker reveals the number of correctly placed colors for each of the questions. After that, the codebreaker only has one more try to determine the secret and thus to win the game. For given $p$ and $c$, our goal is to find the smallest number $k$ of questions the codebreaker needs to win, regardless of the secret, and the corresponding list of questions, called a $(k+1)$-strategy. We present a $lceil 4c/3 rceil-1)$-strategy for $p=2$ for all $c ge 2$, and a $lfloor (3c-1)/2 rfloor$-strategy for $p=3$ for all $c ge 4$ and show the optimality of both strategies, i.e., we prove that no $(k+1)$-strategy for a smaller $k$ exists.","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81651025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trace of uniform hypergraphs with application to Estrada index","authors":"Yi-Zheng Fan, Jian Zheng, Ya Yang","doi":"10.1142/s1793830923500659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830923500659","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate the traces of the adjacency tensor of hypergraphs (simply called the traces of hypergraphs). We give new expressions for the traces of hypertrees and linear unicyclic hypergraphs by the weight function assigned to their connected sub-hypergraphs, and provide some perturbation results for the traces of a hypergraph with cut vertices. As applications we determine the unique hypertree with maximum Estrada index among all hypertrees with fixed number of edges and perfect matchings, and the unique unicyclic hypergraph with maximum Estrada index among all unicyclic hypergraph with fixed number of edges and girth $3$.","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73454092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Path partition of planar graphs with girth at least 6","authors":"Xiaoling Liu, Lei Sun, Wei Zheng","doi":"10.1142/s1793830922501580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830922501580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73899535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partially balanced incomplete block (pbib)-designs arising from diametral paths in some strongly regular graphs","authors":"M. Huilgol, M. Vidya","doi":"10.1142/s1793830922501634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830922501634","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77653087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enumeration of maximum matchings in the Hanoi graphs using matching polynomials","authors":"Zana Kovijanic Vukicevic","doi":"10.1142/s1793830922501609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830922501609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"51 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72445972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bounds on the Steiner radius of a graph","authors":"P. Ali, E. Baskoro","doi":"10.1142/s1793830922501592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830922501592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89892679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fresh-graph of a nominal set","authors":"H. Pasbani, M. Haddadi","doi":"10.1142/s1793830922501610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830922501610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89104052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of urban transport; an alternative to checkerboard towns plans","authors":"Eymard Hernández-López, Giovanni Wences","doi":"10.1142/s1793830922501567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793830922501567","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45568,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90837827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}