Avoiding (m, m, m)-arrays of order n=2(k)

• An (m, m, m)-array of order n is an n x n array such that each cell is assigned a set of at most m symbols from f 1,...,n g such that no symbol occurs more than m times in any row or column. An (m, m, m)-array is called avoidable if there exists a Latin square such that no cell in the Latin square contains a symbol that also belongs to the set assigned to the corresponding cell in the array. We show that there is a constant gamma such that if m <= gamma 2(k) and k >= 14, then any (m, m, m)-array of order n = 2(k) is avoidable. Such a constant gamma has been conjectured to exist for all n by Haggkvist.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)

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