• Title of article

    Completing the spectrum of r-orthogonal Latin squares

  • Author/Authors

    L. Zhu، نويسنده , , Hantao Zhang، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    343
  • To page
    349
  • Abstract
    Two Latin squares of order n are r-orthogonal if their superposition produces exactly r distinct pairs. It has been proved by Belyavskaya, Colbourn and the present authors that for all n⩾7, r-orthogonal Latin squares of order n exist if and only if n⩽r⩽n2 and r∉{n+1,n2−1} with the possible exception of n=14 and r=n2−3. In this paper, we first construct a self-orthogonal Latin square of order 14 which contains certain subarrays. Then we use this square to obtain a pair of (142−3)-orthogonal Latin squares of order 14, determining the spectrum completely.
  • Keywords
    Self-orthogonal , r-Orthogonal , Latin square
  • Journal title
    Discrete Mathematics
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Discrete Mathematics
  • Record number

    949197