{"title":"Proper conflict-free 6-coloring of planar graphs without short cycles","authors":"Yunlong Wang, Weifan Wang, Runrun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A proper conflict-free <em>l</em>-coloring of a graph <em>G</em> is a proper <em>l</em>-coloring satisfying that for any non-isolated vertex <span><math><mi>v</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>V</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, there exists a color appearing exactly once in <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>N</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>v</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>. The proper conflict-free chromatic number, denoted by <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>p</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>f</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, is the minimal integer <em>l</em> so that <em>G</em> admits a proper conflict-free <em>l</em>-coloring. This notion was proposed by Fabrici et al. in 2022. They focus mainly on proper conflict-free coloring of outerplanar graphs and planar graphs. They constructed a planar graph that has no proper conflict-free 5-coloring and conjectured every planar graph <em>G</em> has <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>χ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>p</mi><mi>c</mi><mi>f</mi></mrow></msub><mo>(</mo><mi>G</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>≤</mo><mn>6</mn></math></span>. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture for planar graphs without cycles of lengths 3, 5 or 6.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"499 ","pages":"Article 129405"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143632250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exemplary cooperation strategy with positive influence enhances cooperation quality in social dilemma","authors":"Xue Fan , Lidong Wang , Xuesong Liu , Anhao Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129397","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An exemplary cooperation strategy with completely altruistic behavior is studied in this paper. This strategy not only exhibits altruism comparable to that of ordinary cooperators, but also exerts a power of good example through its unconditional cost, and influences the defector to give unforced-feedback. The findings indicate that even in the face of high temptation, exemplary cooperation strategies can also effectively prevent the total expansion of defection strategies and coexist with them. When the three strategies coexist, higher temptation does not promote defection but rather enhances the quality of cooperation to some extent. Moreover, the increase in unforced-feedback from defectors leads to a rise in the proportion of ordinary cooperation. Notably, the exemplary cooperation strategy can maintain a certain level in the population even in an unfavorable environment for cooperation, thus preventing the population from a state of full defectors. In general, the introduction of exemplary cooperation strategies fosters the development of cooperation to a certain extent. It offers a fresh perspective for understanding the emergence and sustenance of cooperative behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129397"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143628095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Baraviera , Pedro Duarte , Longmei Shu , Maria Joana Torres
{"title":"Isospectral reductions of non-negative matrices","authors":"Alexandre Baraviera , Pedro Duarte , Longmei Shu , Maria Joana Torres","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Isospectral reduction is an important tool for network/matrix analysis as it reduces the dimension of a matrix/network while preserving its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The main contribution of this manuscript is a proposed algorithmic scheme to approximate the stationary measure of a stochastic matrix based on isospectral reductions. We run numerical experiments that indicate this scheme is advantageous when there is more than one eigenvalue near 1, precisely the case where iterative methods perform poorly. We give a partial explanation why this scheme should work well, showing that in some situations isospectral reduction improves the spectral gap.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"499 ","pages":"Article 129402"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143628639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alicia Cordero, Juan R. Torregrosa, Paula Triguero-Navarro
{"title":"First optimal vectorial eighth-order iterative scheme for solving non-linear systems","authors":"Alicia Cordero, Juan R. Torregrosa, Paula Triguero-Navarro","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We introduce a novel iterative method achieving eighth-order convergence, establishing its optimality for solving non-linear systems. A rigorous analysis of convergence order is presented, complemented by investigations into both efficiency indices and the complex dynamics of the proposed method. To assess its performance, extensive numerical experiments are conducted, facilitating comparative analysis with established methods from the literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129401"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143601643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cubic s-arc-transitive bi-Cayley graphs","authors":"Ran Ju , Jing Jian Li , Yang Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A bipartite graph Γ is a bi-Cayley graph over a group <em>H</em> if <span><math><mi>H</mi><mo>⩽</mo><mrow><mi>Aut</mi></mrow><mi>Γ</mi></math></span> acts regularly on each part of Γ. A bi-Cayley graph Γ over a group <em>H</em> is said to be core-free if <em>H</em> is core-free in the bipartition-preserving subgroup of <em>X</em> for <span><math><mi>X</mi><mo>⩽</mo><mrow><mi>Aut</mi></mrow><mi>Γ</mi></math></span>. In this paper, a classification is given for cubic core-free <em>s</em>-arc-transitive bi-Cayley graphs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129400"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143577688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear hyperbolic integro-differential equations","authors":"Riya Jain , Sangita Yadav","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129393","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129393","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we present the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for a nonlinear hyperbolic integro-differential equation. We discuss the semi-discrete and fully-discrete error analysis of the method. For the semi-discrete error analysis, an extended type mixed Ritz-Volterra projection is introduced for the model problem. It helps to achieve the optimal order of convergence for the unknown scalar variable and its gradient. Further, a local post-processing is performed, which helps to achieve super-convergence. Subsequently, by employing the central difference scheme in the temporal direction and applying the mid-point rule for discretizing the integral term, a fully discrete scheme is formulated, accompanied by its corresponding error estimates. Ultimately, through the examination of numerical examples within two-dimensional domains, computational findings are acquired, thus validating the results of our study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129393"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143593620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unconditionally stable sixth-order structure-preserving scheme for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with wave operator","authors":"Shuaikang Wang , Yongbin Ge , Sheng-en Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129392","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A structure-preserving two-level numerical method with sixth-order in both time and space is proposed for solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with wave operator. By introducing auxiliary variables to transform the original equation into a system, structure-preserving high-order difference scheme is obtained by applying the Crank-Nicolson method and the sixth-order difference operators for discretizing time and space derivatives. Subsequently, the conservation laws of energy and mass for the discretized solution produced by the established scheme are rigorously proven. And a theoretical analysis shows that the scheme is unconditionally convergent and stable in the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span>-norm. Additionally, a corresponding fast solving algorithm is designed for the established scheme. And the Richardson extrapolation technique is used to enhance the temporal accuracy to sixth order. Finally, the effectiveness of the numerical scheme and the theoretical results of this study are validated through numerical experiments. The results also fully demonstrate the efficiency of the novel scheme in numerical computations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129392"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143593618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convergence and stability in mean square of the stochastic θ-methods for systems of NSDDEs under a coupled monotonicity condition","authors":"Mengyao Niu, Yuanling Niu, Jiaxin Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our research is devoted to investigating the convergence and stability in mean square of the stochastic <em>θ</em>-methods applied to neutral stochastic differential delay equations (NSDDEs) with super-linearly growing coefficients. Under a coupled monotonicity condition, we show that the numerical approximations of the stochastic <em>θ</em>-methods with <span><math><mi>θ</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>[</mo><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></mfrac><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>]</mo></math></span> converge to the exact solution of NSDDEs strongly with order <span><math><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></mfrac></math></span>. Moreover, it is shown that the stochastic <em>θ</em>-methods are capable of preserving the stability of the exact solution of original equations for any given stepsize <span><math><mi>h</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></math></span>. Finally, several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129395"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143593619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observer-based dynamic event-triggered second-level MPC for nonlinear time-delay CPSs under joint hybrid attacks","authors":"Hongchao Song , Zhenlei Wang , Xin Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates observer-based dynamic event-triggered (DET) second-level model predictive control (MPC) for a specific class of nonlinear time-delay cyber-physical systems (CPSs) under hybrid attacks on the sensor-controller (S-C) channel and controller-actuator (C-A) channel. A dynamic event-triggered mechanism with adaptive bias components is developed to reduce trigger frequency, uphold system performance, and conserve communication resources. Additionally, the observer gain is determined using the nominal observation model and linear matrix inequalities. A novel model predictive control approach is devised based on the identified model to enhance system performance. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that the proposed method effectively guarantees that the closed-loop system satisfies the input-to-state practical stability criterion. Finally, a numerical simulation case study is presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129391"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143550544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observer-based security control for nonlinear networked systems: The SCP model of semi-Markov kernel approach","authors":"Pei-Zhen Xia, Xiao-Heng Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amc.2025.129394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, the problem of observer-based security control for interval type-2 nonlinear networked systems with stochastic communication protocol (SCP) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks is investigated. To begin with, considering the limited network bandwidth, a novel SCP is proposed to avoid data conflicts in information transmission. In particular, compared with the existing SCP, the SCP constructed in this article is scheduled by semi-Markov kernel, and the probability density function of its sojourn-time is assured by both the current mode and the next mode. Then, considering the influence of SCP and DoS attacks, the cooperative design conditions of observer-based security controller based on mode-dependent and fuzzy-dependent are given. Furthermore, a mode-dependent and sojourn-time-dependent Lyapunov function is adopted, and a sufficient condition for the mean square exponential stability of the closed-loop system is ensured. Finally, the feasibility of the method is verified by a mechanical motion model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55496,"journal":{"name":"Applied Mathematics and Computation","volume":"498 ","pages":"Article 129394"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143550543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}