Magic squares with all subsquares of possible orders based on extended Langford sequences
Combinatorics
2017-12-18 v1
Abstract
A magic square of order with all subsquares of possible orders (ASMS) is a magic square which contains a general magic square of each order . 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 -extended Langford sequence of defect and length is equivalent to a partition of into differences . 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 for , which gives a partial answer to Abe's conjecture on ASMS.
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@article{arxiv.1712.05560,
title = {Magic squares with all subsquares of possible orders based on extended Langford sequences},
author = {Wen Li and Ming Zhong and Yong Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05560},
year = {2017}
}