A287648 Maximum number of diagonal transversals in a diagonal Latin square of order n.

1, 0, 0, 4, 5, 6, 27, 120, 333

Offset

1,4

Comments

From Eduard I. Vatutin, Oct 04 2020: (Start)

A diagonal Latin square is a Latin square in which both the main diagonal and main antidiagonal contain each element.

A diagonal transversal is a transversal that includes exactly one element from the main diagonal and exactly one from the antidiagonal. For squares of odd orders, these elements can coincide at the intersection of the diagonals. (End)

A007016 is an upper bound for the number of diagonal transversals in a Latin square: A287647(n) <= a(n) <= A007016(n). - Eduard I. Vatutin, Jan 02 2020

a(11) >= 4828, a(12) >= 24901, a(13) >= 131106, a(14) >= 364596, a(15) >= 389318. - Natalia Makarova, Tomáš Brada, Harry White, Oct 04 2020

a(16) >= 32172800, a(18) >= 280308432. - Natalia Makarova, Tomáš Brada, Dec 25 2020

a(12) >= 28496. - Natalia Makarova, Harry White, Jan 23 2021

a(14) >= 380718, a(20) >= 90010806304, a(21) >= 51162162017, a(22) >= 3227747329246. The number of D-transversals for orders 20 - 22 was calculated by a volunteer. - Natalia Makarova, Tomáš Brada, Harry White, Mar 17 2021

All cyclic diagonal Latin squares (see A338562) are diagonal Latin squares, so A342997((n-1)/2) <= a(n). - Eduard I. Vatutin, Apr 26 2021

a(14) >= 383578, a(15) >= 398974. - Natalia Makarova, Tomáš Brada, Jan 13 2022

a(10) >= 890, a(12) >= 30192, a(14) >= 488792, a(15) >= 4620434, a(17) >= 204995269, a(18) >= 281593874, a(19) >= 11254190082. - Eduard I. Vatutin, Jul 22 2020, updated Mar 09 2022

For most orders n, at least one diagonal Latin square with the maximal number of diagonal transversals has an orthogonal mate and a(n) = A360220(n). Known exceptions: n=6 and n=10. - Eduard I. Vatutin, Feb 17 2023

References

J. W. Brown, F. Cherry, L. Most, M. Most, E. T. Parker, and W. D. Wallis, Completion of the spectrum of orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics. 1992. Vol. 139. pp. 43-49.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..9.

Tomáš Brada, Top 10 CF-ODLK with most orthogonal mates

Natalia Makarova, Most perfect diagonal Latin square of order 9 with 333 diagonal transversals

Natalia Makarova, ODLS of order n>10

Natalia Makarova, DLS with maximum of D-transversals

Natalia Makarova, DLS of orders n = 11 - 22 with known maximum of D-transversals

Natalia Makarova, Spectrum by D-transversals for the 14th order DLS

Natalia Makarova, Spectrum by D-transversals for the 15th order DLS

E. I. Vatutin, Discussion about properties of diagonal Latin squares at forum.boinc.ru (in Russian).

Eduard I. Vatutin, Enumerating the Main Classes of Cyclic and Pandiagonal Latin Squares, Recognition — 2021, pp. 77-79. (in Russian)

E. I. Vatutin, S. E. Kochemazov, and O. S. Zaikin, Estimating of combinatorial characteristics for diagonal Latin squares, Recognition — 2017 (2017), pp. 98-100 (in Russian).

Eduard I. Vatutin, Stepan E. Kochemazov, Oleg S. Zaikin, Maxim O. Manzuk, Natalia N. Nikitina, and Vitaly S. Titov, Central symmetry properties for diagonal Latin squares, Problems of Information Technology (2019) No. 2, 3-8.

E. I. Vatutin, S. E. Kochemazov, O. S. Zaikin, and S. Yu. Valyaev, Enumerating the Transversals for Diagonal Latin Squares of Small Order, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017). Vol. 1973. Technical University of Aachen, Germany, 2017. pp. 6-14. urn:nbn:de:0074-1973-0.

E. I. Vatutin, S. E. Kochemazov, O. S. Zaikin, and S. Yu. Valyaev, Using Volunteer Computing to Study Some Features of Diagonal Latin Squares, Open Engineering. Vol. 7. Iss. 1. 2017. pp. 453-460. DOI: 10.1515/eng-2017-0052.

E. I. Vatutin, S. E. Kochemazov, O. S. Zaikin, S. Yu. Valyaev, and V. S. Titov, Estimating the Number of Transversals for Diagonal Latin Squares of Small Order, Telecommunications. 2018. No. 1. pp. 12-21 (in Russian).

E. I. Vatutin, About the upper bound of number of diagonal transversals for diagonal Latin squares of order 10 (in Russian).

E. I. Vatutin, About the upper bound of number of diagonal transversals for diagonal Latin squares of order 9 (in Russian).

Eduard I. Vatutin, Natalia N. Nikitina, and Maxim O. Manzuk, First results of an experiment on studying the properties of DLS of order 9 in the volunteer distributed computing projects Gerasim@Home and RakeSearch (in Russian).

E. I. Vatutin, N. N. Nikitina, M. O. Manzuk, A. M. Albertyan, I. I. Kurochkin, On the construction of spectra of fast-computable numerical characteristics for diagonal Latin squares of small order, Intellectual and Information Systems (Intellect - 2021). Tula, 2021. pp. 7-17. (in Russian)

E. I. Vatutin, V. S. Titov, A. I. Pykhtin, A. V. Kripachev, N. N. Nikitina, M. O. Manzuk, A. M. Albertyan and I. I. Kurochkin, Estimation of the Cardinalities of the Spectra of Fast-computable Numerical Characteristics for Diagonal Latin Squares of Orders N>9 (in Russian) // Science and education in the development of industrial, social and economic spheres of Russian regions. Murom, 2022. pp. 314-315.

Eduard I. Vatutin, Best known examples.

Index entries for sequences related to Latin squares and rectangles.

Example

For example, the diagonal Latin square
  0 1 2 3
  3 2 1 0
  1 0 3 2
  2 3 0 1
has 4 diagonal transversals:
  0 . . .    . 1 . .    . . 2 .    . . . 3
  . . 1 .    . . . 0    3 . . .    . 2 . .
  . . . 2    . . 3 .    . 0 . .    1 . . .
  . 3 . .    2 . . .    . . . 1    . . 0 .
In addition there are 4 other transversals that are not diagonal transversals and are therefore not included here.
From Natalia Makarova, Oct 04 2020: (Start)
The following DLS of order 14 has 364596 diagonal transversals:
   0  7  6 11  9  3  4  5  2 12 13  8 10  1
   6  1 11  5 10 12  2  3  9  7  4 13  0  8
   5 11  2 12  8  1  7 10  0  6  9  3 13  4
  13  6  5  3  1 10  9 12  7  0  2  4  8 11
  12  3 10  1  4 13  8  6 11  5  0  7  2  9
  10 12  1  8  2  5 11 13  4  3  6  0  9  7
   9  2  7  0  5 11  6  8 13  4  1 10  3 12
   4 13  3  9  6  0 10  7  1  8 12  2 11  5
   2  4  9 10 11  6  1  0  8 13  7 12  5  3
   1 10  8 13 12  2  5  4  3  9 11  6  7  0
   3  5 12  7 13  8  0  1  6 11 10  9  4  2
   8  0 13  4  7  9  3  2 12 10  5 11  1  6
   7  9  0  6  3  4 13 11  5  2  8  1 12 10
  11  8  4  2  0  7 12  9 10  1  3  5  6 13
(End)

Crossrefs

Cf. A274806, A287644, A287645, A287647, A342997, A345370.

Sequence in context: A036492 A048075 A048016 * A081406 A019067 A352865

Adjacent sequences: A287645 A287646 A287647 * A287649 A287650 A287651

Keyword

nonn,more,hard

Author

Eduard I. Vatutin, May 29 2017

Extensions

a(8) added by Eduard I. Vatutin, Oct 29 2017

a(9) added by Eduard I. Vatutin, Dec 08 2020

Status

approved