OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
An Latin subrectangle is a m X k Latin rectangle of a Latin square of order n, 1 <= m <= n, 1 <= k <= n.
LINKS
E. I. Vatutin, Discussion about properties of diagonal Latin squares at forum.boinc.ru (in Russian).
E. I. Vatutin, About the minimum and maximum number of Latin subrectangles in a diagonal Latin squares of order 8 (in Russian).
Eduard Vatutin, Alexey Belyshev, Natalia Nikitina, and Maxim Manzuk, Evaluation of Efficiency of Using Simple Transformations When Searching for Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares of Order 10, High-Performance Computing Systems and Technologies in Sci. Res., Automation of Control and Production (HPCST 2020), Communications in Comp. and Inf. Sci. book series (CCIS, Vol. 1304) Springer (2020), 127-146.
Eduard I. Vatutin, Proving list (best known examples).
EXAMPLE
For example, the square
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
4 2 6 5 0 1 3
3 6 1 0 5 2 4
6 3 5 4 1 0 2
1 5 3 2 6 4 0
5 0 4 6 2 3 1
2 4 0 1 3 6 5
has a Latin subrectangle
. . . . . . .
. . 6 5 0 1 3
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . 0 1 3 6 5
The total number of Latin subrectangles for this square is 2119.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more,hard
AUTHOR
Eduard I. Vatutin, May 01 2019
EXTENSIONS
a(8) added by Eduard I. Vatutin, Oct 06 2020
STATUS
approved