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TRANSVERSALS, INDIVISIBLE PLEXES AND PARTITIONS OF LATIN SQUARES

Part of: Graph theory Designs and configurations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2011

JUDITH EGAN
JUDITH EGAN*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia (email: [email protected])
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Keywords

latin squaretransversalplexduplexindivisible plexpartitions of latin squaresbachelor square

MSC classification

Secondary: 05B15: Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares 05C70: Factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing
Type
Abstracts of Australasian PhD Theses
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , October 2011 , pp. 350 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2011

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