Vol. 8 (2025): PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research

ISSN 2576-3725 (online)

ISSN 2765-8724 (print)

A royalty-free color printing of Volume 8, 2025 is now available for purchase on Amazon by ordering here. Since it is sold as a book on Amazon, the color edition of Volume 8, 2025 has two additional identification codes:

ISBN-13: 979-8243039512
ASIN: B0GFM44NGM

A royalty-free black and white printing is also available for purchase on Amazon by ordering here. Since it is sold as a book on Amazon, the black and white edition of Volume 8, 2025 has two additional identification codes:

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Published: 2025-01-13

Articles

Fractal Word Search: How Deep to Delve

Klara Chura, Tanya Khovanova

1-19
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The KnotLink Game on Families of Whitehead and Pretzel Links

Hunter Adams, Megan Christensen, Brooke Friedel, Allison Henrich, David Neel

20-46
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Covering Area in a Disc by Finitely Many Triangles

Zihao Chen, Keyan Ding, Yanzhe Huang, Xiaojun Jia, Joseph Rosenblatt, Yuqing Su, Jeff Xue

47-56
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Metrics on Permutations With the Same Descent Set

Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Kathryn Haymaker, Colin McGarry, Dylan McMahon

57-69
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On the Gonality of Ferrers Rook Graphs

David Jensen, Marissa Morvai, Noah Speeter, Ben Welch, Sydney Yeomans

70-84
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(S,w)-Gap Shifts and Their Entropy

Cristian Ramirez, Amy Somers

85-97
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COVID on Trees and Infinite Grids

Andrea Barnett, Robert Bond, Anthony Macias, Thomas Mattman, Bill Parnell, Ely Schoenfield

98-122
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Enumeration of Minimum Path Covers of Trees

Merielyn Sher, Charles Johnson

123-140
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Algorithmic Generation of DNA Self-Assembly Graphs

Grace Bielefeldt, Iris Horng, Holly Luebsen, Mitchell VonEschen, Leyda Almodovar Velazquez, Amanda Harsy Ramsay, Cory Johnson, Jessica Sorrells

141-172
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Inverse Iteration for the Laplace Eigenvalue Problem With Robin and Mixed Boundary Conditions

Benjamin Lyons, Ephraim Ruttenberg, Nicholas Zitzelberger

173-194
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Panmagic Permutations and N-ary Groups

Sergiy Koshkin, Jaeho Lee

195-212
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Generalized Fiber Contraction Mapping Principle

Alexandro Luna, Weiran Yang

213-224
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A Recursive Approach to a Multi-State Cylindrical Lights Out Game

Liwei Chen, Kristen Mazur

225-241
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A Class of Polynomials From Enumerating Queen Paths

Ashish Goswami, Khang Tran

242-257
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The Zero Forcing Numbers of Peony Graphs and Web Graphs

Sara Anderton, Kanno Mizozoe, Houston Schuerger, Andrew Schwartz

258-272
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Self and Mixed Delta-Moves on Algebraically Split Links

Anthony Bosman, Devin Garcia, Justyce Goode, Yamil Kas-Danouche, Davielle Smith

273-285
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Using Agent-Based Modeling to Understand the Impact of Community Interactions on Voter Apathy and Election Outcome

Grace Brophy, Audrey Rips-Goodwin, Lucy Wilson, Allison Lewis

286-321
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Stochastic Domination of Prime Powers of a Uniform Random Integer by Geometric Distributions

Joseph Squillace, Carissa George

322-337
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Fundamental Groups of Hamming Graphs

Keira Behal, Tien Chih

338-358
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Fixed-Term Decompositions Using Even-Indexed Fibonacci Numbers

Hung Chu, Aney Kanji, Zachary Vasseur

359-373
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Some Equations Concerning the Sum of Divisors Function

Andreea Dima

374-380
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A Compendium of Motzkin-Like Path Generating Functions

Jacob Vogelpohl

381-398
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The Optimal Ratio of a Generalized Chaos Game in Regular Polytopes

Christoffer Tarmet

399-411
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Maximal-ly Surprising Triangle Functions

Felix Ponomarenko, Vadim Ponomarenko

412-417
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The Straightening Identity in the Universal Enveloping Algebra of the Heisenberg Algebra

Samuel Herron Chamberlin, Hope Peck, Azadeh Rafizadeh

418-426
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Numerical Simulation of Jellyfish Swimming

Jillian M. Thomas, Karen A. Yokley

427-445
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A Medial-Axis-Based Measure of District Compactness

Jason D'Amico, Ellen Gasparovic, Greg Malen, Mushan Zhong

446-471
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Property (NL) in Coxeter Groups

Sahana H. Balasubramanya, Georgia Burkhalter, Rachel Niebler, Roberta Shapiro

472-485
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