A census of critical sets based on non-trivial autotopisms of Latin squares of order up to five

This paper delves into the study of critical sets of Latin squares having a given isotopism in their autotopism group. Particularly, we prove that the sizes of these critical sets only depend on both the main class of the Latin square and the cycle structure of the isotopism under consideration. Kee...

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Autores: Falcón Ganfornina, Raúl Manuel, Johnson, Laura, Perkins, Stephanie
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/102406
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/102406
https://doi.org/10.3934/math.2021017
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Latin square
Autotopism
Cycle structure
Critical set
Enumeration
Descripción
Sumario:This paper delves into the study of critical sets of Latin squares having a given isotopism in their autotopism group. Particularly, we prove that the sizes of these critical sets only depend on both the main class of the Latin square and the cycle structure of the isotopism under consideration. Keeping then in mind that the autotopism group of a Latin square acts faithfully on the set of entries of the latter, we enumerate all the critical sets based on autotopisms of Latin squares of order up to five.