The spectrum of HSOLSSOM(h^ n) where h is even

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(95)00066-6MaRDI QIDQ1815306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 20 July 1997

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365x(95)00066-6

zbMATH Keywords

holey self-orthogonal Latin squares orthogonal mate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares (05B15)

Review text

An \(\text{HSOLSSOM}(h^n)\), that is, holey self-orthogonal Latin squares with a symmetric orthogonal mate, consists of three mutually orthogonal Latin squares \(A\), \(B\), and \(C\) of order \(hn\), each having \(n\) holes of size \(h\) that partition the element set, such that \(B=A^T\) and \(C=C^T\). The authors improve the known result for \(h=2\) and show that an \(\text{HSOLSSOM}(2^n)\) exists for \(n\geq 5\) except possibly for \(n\in E=\{8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 32\}\). They then show that an \(\text{HSOLSSOM}(h^n)\) exists for \(n\geq 5\) except possibly for \(n\in E\) if \(h\equiv 2\text{ mod}(4)\) and \(h\geq 10\), and that it exists for \(n\geq 5\) if \(h\equiv 0\text{ mod}(4)\).

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