Abstract
A Latin square is a matrix of symbols such that each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and column. A Latin square (Formula presented.) is row-Hamiltonian if the permutation induced by each pair of distinct rows of (Formula presented.) is a full cycle permutation. Row-Hamiltonian Latin squares are equivalent to perfect 1-factorisations of complete bipartite graphs. For the first time, we exhibit a family of Latin squares that are row-Hamiltonian and also achieve precisely one of the related properties of being column-Hamiltonian or symbol-Hamiltonian. This family allows us to construct non-trivial, anti-associative, isotopically (Formula presented.) -closed loop varieties, solving an open problem posed by Falconer in 1970.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e12575 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 2024 |
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