Construction and enumeration of pandiagonal magic squares of order \(n\) from step method
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 0963.05022
publication date: 2001-05-30T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05A15
zbMATH DE Number: 1600929
zbMATH Keywords: magic square
zbMATH Keywords: enumeration
zbMATH Keywords: step method
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author: Chin-Mei Fu
title: Construction and enumeration of pandiagonal magic squares of order \(n\) from step method
published in: Ars Combinatoria
review text: A pandiagonal magic square (PMS) is an arrangement of the numbers \(0, 1, \ldots , n^2-1\) into an \(n\times n\) matrix such that all the sums of the entries in columns, rows, and extended diagonals (torus identification) are the same. The authors use the so-called step method, which is defined by a quadruple of integers \(1\leq a,b,c,d\leq n-1\) satisfying certain conditions, to construct a PMS for each \(n>3\) that is not of the form \(n=2m\), \(m\) odd. They enumerate, for \(n=8\) and \(n=9\), all (nonequivalent and having \(0\) as the top left entry) PMS's obtained by the method.
reviewed by: Martin Klazar
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1600929