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    A counterexample to Stein's Equi-n-square Conjecture

    Pokrovskiy, Alexey and Sudakov, B. (2019) A counterexample to Stein's Equi-n-square Conjecture. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 147 (6), pp. 2281-2287. ISSN 0002-9939.

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    Abstract

    In 1975 Stein conjectured that in every n×n array filled with the numbers 1,…,n with every number occuring exactly n times, there is a partial transversal of size n − 1. In this note we show that this conjecture is false by constructing such arrays without partial transverals of size n − (ln n)/42.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Depositing User: Alexey Pokrovskiy
    Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2019 12:07
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:47
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/25437

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