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Square Heffter arrays are $n\times n$ arrays such that each row and each column contains $k$ filled cells, each row and column sum is divisible by $2nk+1$ and either $x$ or $-x$ appears in the array for each integer $1\leq x\leq nk$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-29 K. Burrage , Nicholas J. Cavenagh , D. Donovan , E. Ş. Yazıcı

Square relative non-zero sum Heffter arrays, denoted by $\mathrm{N}\mathrm{H}_t(n;k)$, have been introduced as a variant of the classical concept of Heffter array. An $\mathrm{N}\mathrm{H}_t(n; k)$ is an $n\times n$ partially filled array…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Lorenzo Mella , Anita Pasotti

A Heffter array $H(n;k)$ is an $n\times n$ matrix such that each row and column contains $k$ filled cells, each row and column sum is divisible by $2nk+1$ and either $x$ or $-x$ appears in the array for each integer $1\leq x\leq nk$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Nicholas J. Cavenagh , Jeff Dinitz , Diane Donovan , Sule Yazıcı

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

Relative Heffter arrays, denoted by $\mathrm{H}_t(m,n; s,k)$, have been introduced as a generalization of the classical concept of Heffter array. A $\mathrm{H}_t(m,n; s,k)$ is an $m\times n$ partially filled array with elements in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Simone Costa , Anita Pasotti , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

In this paper we define a new class of partially filled arrays, called relative Heffter arrays, that are a generalization of the Heffter arrays introduced by Archdeacon in 2015. Let $v=2nk+t$ be a positive integer, where $t$ divides $2nk$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Simone Costa , Fiorenza Morini , Anita Pasotti , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

In this paper we introduce a new class of partially filled arrays that, as Heffter arrays, are related to difference families, graph decompositions and biembeddings. A non-zero sum Heffter array $\mathrm{N}\mathrm{H}(m,n; h,k)$ is an $m…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Simone Costa , Stefano Della Fiore , Anita Pasotti

A Heffter array $H(m,n;s,t)$ is an $m \times n$ matrix with nonzero entries from $\mathbb{Z}_{2ms+1}$ such that $i)$ each row contains $s$ filled cells and each column contains $t$ filled cells, $ii)$ every row and column sum to 0, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 D. S. Archdeacon , J. H. Dinitz , D. M. Donovan , Ermine Şule Yaızı

A Heffter array is an m by n matrix with nonzero entries from Z_{2mn+1} such that i) every row and column sum to 0, and ii) no element from {x,-x} appears twice. We construct some Heffter arrays. These arrays are used to build current…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Dan Archdeacon

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

A square integer relative Heffter array is an $n \times n$ array whose rows and columns sum to zero, each row and each column has exactly $k$ entries and either $x$ or $-x$ appears in the array for every $x \in \mathbb{Z}_{2nk+t}\setminus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Diane Donovan , Sarah Lawson , James Lefevre

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

A Heffter array over an additive group $G$ is any partially filled array $A$ satisfying that: (1) each one of its rows and columns sum to zero in $G$, and (2) if $i\in G\setminus\{0\}$, then either $i$ or $-i$ appears exactly once in $A$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Raúl M. Falcón , Lorenzo Mella

An integer Heffter array $H(m,n;s;k)$ is an $m\times n$ partially filled array whose entries are the elements of a subset $\Omega\subset \mathbb{Z}$ such that $\{\Omega,-\Omega\}$ is a partition of the set $\{1,2,\ldots,2nk\}$ and such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Fiorenza Morini , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

Let $m,n,s,k$ be four integers such that $3\leq s \leq n$, $3\leq k\leq m$ and $ms=nk$. Set $d=\gcd(s,k)$. In this paper we show how one can construct a Heffter array $H(m,n;s,k)$ starting from a square Heffter array $H(nk/d;d)$ whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Fiorenza Morini , Marco Antonio Pellegrini

In [12] was introduced, for cyclic groups, the class of partially filled arrays of the non-zero sum Heffter array that are, as the Heffter arrays, related to difference families, graph decompositions, and biembeddings. Here we generalize…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Simone Costa , Stefano Della Fiore

In this paper, we introduce the concept of a relative Heffter space which simultaneously generalizes those of relative Heffter arrays and Heffter spaces. Given a subgroup $J$ of an abelian group $G$, a relative Heffter space is a resolvable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Laura Johnson , Lorenzo Mella , Anita Pasotti

A tight Heffter array H(m,n) is an m x n matrix with nonzero entries from Z_{2mn+1} such that i) the sum of the elements in each row and each column is 0, and ii) no element from {x,-x\ appears twice. We prove that H(m,n) exist if and only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Archdeacon , Tomas Boothby , Jeffrey H. Dinitz

Heffter arrays were introduced by Archdeacon in 2015 as an interesting link between combinatorial designs and topological graph theory. Since the initial paper on this topic, there has been a good deal of interest in Heffter arrays as well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-29 A. Pasotti , J. H. Dinitz

Let $v=2ms+t$ be a positive integer, where $t$ divides $2ms$, and let $J$ be the subgroup of order $t$ of the cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}_v$. An integer Heffter array $H_t(m,n;s,k)$ over $\mathbb{Z}_v$ relative to $J$ is an $m\times n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Fiorenza Morini , Marco Antonio Pellegrini
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