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ON THE NUMBER OF LATIN RECTANGLES

Part of: Sequences and sets Designs and configurations Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2010

DOUGLAS S. STONES
DOUGLAS S. STONES*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Vic 3800, Australia (email: the_empty_element@yahoo.com)
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Keywords

Latin squareLatin rectangleautotopismautomorphismAlon–Tarsi conjecturequasigrouporthomorphism

MSC classification

Secondary: 05B15: Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares 11B50: Sequences (mod $m$) 20D60: Arithmetic and combinatorial problems 20D45: Automorphisms
Type
Abstracts of Australasian PhD Theses
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , August 2010 , pp. 167 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2010

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