Small Latin arrays have a near transversal

DOI10.1002/JCD.21778arXiv1911.05936OpenAlexW3159312855MaRDI QIDQ6329151FDOQ6329151

Authors: Darcy Best, Kyle Pula, Ian M. Wanless 

Publication date: 13 November 2019

Abstract: A Latin array is a matrix of symbols in which no symbol occurs more than once within a row or within a column. A diagonal of an $nimesn$ array is a selection of $n$ cells taken from different rows and columns of the array. The weight of a diagonal is the number of different symbols on it. We show via computation that every Latin array of order $nle11$ has a diagonal of weight at least $n-1$. A corollary is the existence of near transversals in Latin squares of these orders. More generally, for all $kle20$ we compute a lower bound on the order of any Latin array that does not have a diagonal of weight at least $n-k$.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/jcd.21778

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares (05B15) Combinatorics (05-XX)

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