Row-Hamiltonian Latin squares and Falconer varieties
Combinatorics
2023-12-21 v1
Abstract
A \emph{Latin square} is a matrix of symbols such that each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and column. A Latin square is \emph{row-Hamiltonian} if the permutation induced by each pair of distinct rows of is a full cycle permutation. Row-Hamiltonian Latin squares are equivalent to perfect -factorisations of complete bipartite graphs. For the first time, we exhibit a family of Latin squares that are row-Hamiltonian and also achieve precisely one of the related properties of being column-Hamiltonian or symbol-Hamiltonian. This family allows us to construct non-trivial, anti-associative, isotopically -closed loop varieties, solving an open problem posed by Falconer in 1970.
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@article{arxiv.2211.13826,
title = {Row-Hamiltonian Latin squares and Falconer varieties},
author = {Jack Allsop and Ian M. Wanless},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13826},
year = {2023}
}