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Signed Magic arrays with certain property

Combinatorics 2021-11-22 v1

Abstract

A signed magic array, SMA(m,n;s,t)SMA(m, n;s,t), is an m×nm \times n array with the same number of filled cells ss in each row and the same number of filled cells tt in each column, filled with a certain set of numbers that is symmetric about the number zero, such that every row and column has a zero sum. We use the notation SMA(m,n)SMA(m, n) if m=tm=t and n=sn=s. In this paper, we prove that for every even number n2n\geq 2 there exists an SMA(m,n)SMA(m,n) such that the entries ±x\pm x appear in the same row for every x{1,2,3,,mn/2}x\in\{1, 2, 3,\ldots, mn/2\} if and only if m0,3(mod4)m\equiv 0, 3(\mod4) and n=2n=2 or m3m\geq 3 and n4n\geq 4.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.10334,
  title  = {Signed Magic arrays with certain property},
  author = {Chanceley Book and Abdollah Khodkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10334},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1701.01649

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