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arxiv: 1005.3460 · v2 · pith:SMUUL36Lnew · submitted 2010-05-19 · 🧮 math.CO

Embedding a Latin square with transversal into a projective space

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A Latin square of side n defines in a natural way a finite geometry on 3n points, with three lines of size n and n^2 lines of size 3. A Latin square of side n with a transversal similarly defines a finite geometry on 3n+1 points, with three lines of size n, n^2-n lines of size 3, and n concurrent lines of size 4. A collection of k mutually orthogonal Latin squares defines a geometry on kn points, with k lines of size n and n^2 lines of size k. Extending work of Bruen and Colbourn (J. Combin. Th. Ser. A 92 (2000), 88-94), we characterise embeddings of these finite geometries into projective spaces over skew fields.

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