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Decomposition of bi-colored square arrays into balanced diagonals

Combinatorics 2015-08-18 v1

Abstract

Given an n×nn\times n array MM (n7n\ge 7), where each cell is colored in one of two colors, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a partition of MM into nn diagonals, each containing at least one cell of each color. As a consequence, it follows that if each color appears in at least 2n12n-1 cells, then such a partition exists. The proof uses results on completion of partial Latin squares.

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@article{arxiv.1508.03751,
  title  = {Decomposition of bi-colored square arrays into balanced diagonals},
  author = {Dani Kotlar and Ran Ziv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03751},
  year   = {2015}
}