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

MaRDI QIDQ5206595zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wen Li, Ming Zhong

Publication date 18 December 2019

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

zbMATH Keywords

Skolem sequencemagic squareextend Langford sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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