Square integer Heffter arrays with empty cells

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Abstract: A Heffter array H(m,n;s,t) is an mimesn matrix with nonzero entries from mathbbZ2ms+1 such that i) each row contains s filled cells and each column contains t filled cells, ii) every row and column sum to 0, and iii) no element from x,−x appears twice. Heffter arrays are useful in embedding the complete graph K2nm+1 on an orientable surface where the embedding has the property that each edge borders exactly one s−cycle and one t−cycle. Archdeacon, Boothby and Dinitz proved that these arrays can be constructed in the case when s=m, i.e. every cell is filled. In this paper we concentrate on square arrays with empty cells where every row sum and every column sum is 0 in mathbbZ. We solve most of the instances of this case.





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