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On the number of symbols that forces a transversal

Part of: Designs and configurations Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2019

Peter Keevash  and
Liana Yepremyan
Peter Keevash*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK
Liana Yepremyan
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK
*
*Corresponding author. Email: keevash@maths.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

Akbari and Alipour [1] conjectured that any Latin array of order n with at least n2/2 symbols contains a transversal. For large n, we confirm this conjecture, and moreover, we show that n399/200 symbols suffice.

MSC classification

Primary: 05C70: Factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing
Secondary: 05B15: Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares
Type
Paper
Information
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , March 2020 , pp. 234 - 240
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2019

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Footnotes

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Research supported in part by ERC Consolidator Grant 647678.

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