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Putting Dots in Triangles

Discrete Mathematics 2010-05-19 v3

Abstract

Given a right-angled triangle of squares in a grid whose horizontal and vertical sides are nn squares long, let N(n) denote the maximum number of dots that can be placed into the cells of the triangle such that each row, each column, and each diagonal parallel to the long side of the triangle contains at most one dot. It has been proven that N(n)=2n+13N(n) = \lfloor \frac{2n+1}{3} \rfloor. In this note, we give a new proof of this result using linear programming techniques.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0910.4325,
  title  = {Putting Dots in Triangles},
  author = {Simon R. Blackburn and Maura B. Paterson and Douglas R. Stinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4325},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

10 pages Minor rephrasing: final version to submit to journal.

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