Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers, and let $R=(r_1,...,r_m)$ and $S=(s_1,...,s_n)$ be nonnegative integral vectors. Let $A(R,S)$ be the set of all $m\times n$$(0,1)$-matrices with row sum vector $R$ and column vector...

For integers $m>r\ge 0$, Brietzke (2008) defined the $(m,r)$-central coefficients of an infinite lower triangular matrix $G=(d,h)={\left(d_{n,k}\right)}_{n,k\in \mathbb{N}}$ as $d_{mn+r,(m-1)n+r}$, with $n=0,1,2,\cdots$, and the $(m,r)$-central coefficient triangle of $G$ as $$G^{(m,r)}={\left(d_{mn+r,(m-1)n+k+r}\right)}_{n,k\in \mathbb{N}}.$$ It is known that the $(m,r)$-central coefficient triangles of any Riordan array are also Riordan arrays. In this paper, for a Riordan array $G=(d,h)$ with $h\left(0\right)=0$ and $d\left(0\right),h^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)\ne 0$, we obtain the generating function of its $(m,r)$-central coefficients and give an explicit representation for the $(m,r)$-central Riordan array $G^{(m,r)}$ in terms of the Riordan array $G$. Meanwhile, the...

An $n\times n$ sign pattern $𝒜$ is said to be potentially nilpotent if there exists a nilpotent real matrix $B$ with the same sign pattern as $𝒜$. Let ${𝒟}_{n,r}$ be an $n\times n$ sign pattern with $2\le r\le n$ such that the superdiagonal and the $(n,n)$ entries are positive, the $(i,1)$$(i=1...$

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with nonzero identity, let $ℐ\left(ℛ\right)$ be the set of all ideals of $R$ and $\delta :ℐ\left(ℛ\right)\to ℐ\left(ℛ\right)$ an expansion of ideals of $R$ defined by $I\mapsto \delta \left(I\right)$. We introduce the concept of $(\delta ,2)$-primary ideals in commutative rings. A proper ideal $I$ of $R$ is called a $(\delta ,2)$-primary ideal if whenever $a,b\in R$ and $ab\in I$, then $a^2\in I$ or $b^2\in \delta \left(I\right)$. Our purpose is to extend the concept of $2$-ideals to $(\delta ,2)$-primary ideals of commutative rings. Then we investigate the basic properties of $(\delta ,2)$-primary ideals and also discuss the relations among $(\delta ,2)$-primary, $\delta$-primary and...

As a general case of molecular graphs of benzenoid hydrocarbons, we study plane bipartite graphs with Kekulé structures (1-factors). A bipartite graph G is called elementary if G is connected and every edge belongs to a 1-factor of G. Some properties of the minimal and the maximal 1-factor of a plane elementary graph are given. A peripheral face f of a plane elementary graph is reducible, if the removal of the internal vertices and edges of the path that is the intersection of...

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the Euclidean plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. A 1-planar graph on $n$ vertices is optimal if it has $4n-8$ edges. We prove that 1-planar graphs with girth at least 6 are (1,1,1,1)-colorable (in the sense that each of the four color classes induces a subgraph of maximum degree one). Inspired by the decomposition of 1-planar graphs, we conjecture that every 1-planar graph is (2,2,2,0,0)-colorable.

We describe unicorn paths in the arc graph and show that they form 1-slim triangles and are invariant under taking subpaths. We deduce that all arc graphs are 7-hyperbolic. Considering the same paths in the arc and curve graph, this also shows that all curve graphs are 17-hyperbolic, including closed surfaces.

The simple incidence structure $𝒟(𝒜,2)$ formed by points and unordered pairs of distinct parallel lines of a finite affine plane $𝒜=(𝒫,ℒ)$ of order $n>2$ is a $2-(n^2,2n,2n-1)$ design. If $n=3$, $𝒟(𝒜,2)$ is the complementary design of $𝒜$. If $n=4$, $𝒟(𝒜,2)$ is isomorphic to the geometric design $A{G}_3(4,2)$ (see [2; Theorem 1.2]). In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a $2-(n^2,2n,2n-1)$ design to be of the form $𝒟(𝒜,2)$ for some finite affine plane $𝒜$ of order $n>4$. As a consequence we obtain a characterization of small designs $𝒟(𝒜,2)$.