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The notion of a Heffter array, which received much attention in the last decade, is equivalent to a pair of orthogonal Heffter systems. In this paper we study the existence problem of a set of $r$ mutually orthogonal Heffter systems for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Marco Buratti , Anita Pasotti

Archdeacon, in his seminal paper $[1]$, defined the concept of Heffter array in order to provide explicit constructions of $\mathbb{Z}_{v}$-regular biembeddings of complete graphs $K_v$ into orientable surfaces. In this paper, we first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Simone Costa

Let $S$ be a subset of a group $G$ (not necessarily abelian) such that $S\,\cap -S$ is empty or contains only elements of order $2$, and let $\mathbf{h}=(h_1,\ldots, h_m)\in \mathbb{N}^m$ and $\mathbf{k}=(k_1, \ldots, k_n)\in \mathbb{N}^n$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Mella , Tommaso Traetta

In this paper we introduce a particular class of Heffter arrays, called globally simple Heffter arrays, whose existence gives at once orthogonal cyclic cycle decompositions of the complete graph and of the cocktail party graph. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Simone Costa , Fiorenza Morini , Anita Pasotti , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

Archdeacon, in his seminal paper $[1]$, defined the concept of Heffter array to provide explicit constructions of biembeddings of the complete graph $K_v$ into orientable surfaces, the so-called Archdeacon embeddings, and proved that these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Simone Costa , Lorenzo Mella

A $(v,k;r)$ Heffter space is a resolvable $(v_r,b_k)$ configuration whose points form a half-set of an abelian group $G$ and whose blocks are all zero-sum in $G$. It was recently proved that there are infinitely many orders $v$ for which,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Marco Buratti , Anita Pasotti

This article aims to provide exponential lower bounds on the number of non-isomorphic $k$-gonal biembeddings of the complete multipartite graph into orientable surfaces. For this purpose, we use the concept, introduced by Archdeacon in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Simone Costa , Anita Pasotti

In 2015, Archdeacon introduced the notion of Heffter arrays and showed the connection between Heffter arrays and biembedding m-cycle and an n-cycle systems on a surface. In this paper we exploit this connection and prove that for every n >=…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Jeffrey H. Dinitz , Amelia R. W. Mattern

In this paper we will show the existence of a face $2$-colourable biembedding of the complete graph onto an orientable surface where each face is a cycle of a fixed length $k$, for infinitely many values of $k$. In particular, under certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Nicholas J. Cavenagh , D. Donovan , E. Ş. Yazici

In this paper we introduce a special class of partially filled arrays. A magic partially filled array $\mathrm{MPF}_\Omega(m,n; s,k)$ on a subset $\Omega$ of an abelian group $(\Gamma,+)$ is a partially filled array of size $m\times n$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Fiorenza Morini , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

After extending the classic notion of a tight Heffter array H$(m,n)$ to any group of order $2mn+1$, we give direct constructions for elementary abelian tight Heffter arrays, hence in particular for prime tight Heffter arrays. If $q=2mn+1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Marco Buratti

Gerbner, Patk\'{o}s, Tuza, and Vizer recently initiated the study of $F$-saturated regular graphs. One of the essential problems in this line of research is determining when such a graph exists. Using generalized sum-free sets we prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-31 David Davini , Craig Timmons

The shiftable Heffter arrays are naturally generalized to the shiftable Heffter spaces. We present a recursive construction which starting from a single shiftable Heffter space leads to infinitely many other shiftable Heffter spaces of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Marco Buratti , Anita Pasotti

The classical Dedekind sums $s(d, c)$ can be represented as sums over the partial quotients of the continued fraction expansion of the rational $\frac{d}{c}$. Hardy sums, the analog integer-valued sums arising in the transformation of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Alessandro Lägeler

Hadwiger's conjecture asserts that every graph with chromatic number $t$ contains a complete minor of order $t$. Given integers $n \ge 2k+1 \ge 5$, the Kneser graph $K(n, k)$ is the graph with vertices the $k$-subsets of an $n$-set such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Guangjun Xu , Sanming Zhou

A {\it vector space partition} is here a collection $\mathcal P$ of subspaces of a finite vector space $V(n,q)$, of dimension $n$ over a finite field with $q$ elements, with the property that every non zero vector is contained in a unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Olof Heden

For any field k and any integers m,n with 0 <= 2m <= n+1, let W_n be the k-vector space of sequences (x_0,...,x_n), and let H_m be the subset of W_n consisting of the sequences that satisfy a degree-m linear recursion, that is, for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Noam D. Elkies

This paper presents new formulae for the harmonic numbers of order $k$, $H_{k}(n)$, and for the partial sums of two Fourier series associated with them, denoted here by $C^m_{k}(n)$ and $S^m_{k}(n)$. I believe this new formula for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Jose Risomar Sousa

A half-arc-transitive graph is a regular graph that is both vertex- and edge-transitive, but is not arc-transitive. If such a graph has finite valency, then its valency is even, and greater than $2$. In 1970, Bouwer proved that there exists…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Marston D. E. Conder , Arjana Žitnik

We generalize the geometric construction of quiver Hecke algebras from Varagnolo and Vasserot to a setup with arbitrary connected reductive groups. This corresponds to replacing quiver representations by generalized quiver representations…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Julia Sauter