Magic squares with all subsquares of possible orders based on extended Langford sequences

zbMATH Open1427.05043arXiv1712.05560MaRDI QIDQ5206595FDOQ5206595

Authors: Wen Li, Ming Zhong 

Publication date: 18 December 2019

Abstract: A magic square of order $n$ with all subsquares of possible orders (ASMS$(n)$) is a magic square which contains a general magic square of each order $kin3,4,cdots,n-2$. Since the conjecture on the existence of an ASMS was proposed in 1994, much attention has been paid but very little is known except for few sporadic examples. A $k$-extended Langford sequence of defect $d$ and length $m$ is equivalent to a partition of $$ into differences $d,cdots,d+m-1$. In this paper, a construction of ASMS based on extended Langford sequence is established. As a result, it is shown that there exists an ASMS$(n)$ for $nequivpm3pmod18$, which gives a partial answer to Abe's conjecture on ASMS.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05560

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zbMATH Keywords

Skolem sequencemagic squareextend Langford sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares (05B15)

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