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

    Pokrovskiy, Alexey and Sudakov, Benny (2019) A counterexample to Stein's Equi-n-square conjecture. Technical Report. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.

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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−(1/42)ln(n).

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    Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
    Additional Information: Birkbeck Pure Mathematics Preprint Series #51
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Depositing User: Maura Paterson
    Date Deposited: 15 Jun 2020 11:00
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 18:00
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32252

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