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Almost every Latin square has a decomposition into transversals

Published 9 Jan 2025 in math.CO | (2501.05438v1)

Abstract: In 1782, Euler conjectured that no Latin square of order n≡2  mod  4n\equiv 2\; \textrm{mod}\; 4 has a decomposition into transversals. While confirmed for n=6n=6 by Tarry in 1900, Bose, Parker, and Shrikhande constructed counterexamples in 1960 for each n≡2  mod  4n\equiv 2\; \textrm{mod}\; 4 with n≥10n\geq 10. We show that, in fact, counterexamples are extremely common, by showing that if a Latin square of order nn is chosen uniformly at random then with high probability it has a decomposition into transversals.

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