Avoiding arrays of odd order by Latin squares

• We prove that there exists a constant c such that for each pos- itive integer k every (2k+1)×(2k+1) array A on the symbols 1,...,2k+1 with at most c(2k + 1) symbols in every cell, and each symbol repeated at most c(2k+1) times in every row and column is avoidable; that is, there is a (2k+1)×(2k+1) Latin square S on the symbols 1,...,2k+1 such that for each cell (i, j) in S the symbol in (i, j) does not appear in the corresponding cell in A. This settles the last open case of a conjecture by Häggkvist.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Diskret matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Discrete Mathematics (hsv//eng)

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Latin square

avoidability

avoidable array

Discrete mathematics

Diskret matematik

Mathematics

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