Zappa's extension of the Alon–Tarsi conjecture

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Let a Latin square be normalized if its first row is the identity permutation and unipotent if all entries on its main diagonal are equal. Let UnEU_n^{\text{E}} and UnOU_n^{\text{O}} be the numbers of normalized unipotent even and odd Latin squares of order nn, respectively, and define

AT(n):=UnE−UnO.AT(n):=U_n^{\text{E}}-U_n^{\text{O}}.

Zappa's extension of the Alon–Tarsi conjecture. For all nn,

AT(n)≠0.AT(n)\neq0.

This extends the Alon–Tarsi nonvanishing assertion to all orders by using normalized unipotent Latin squares; the source presents it as an extension proposed by Zappa, without resolving it in general.

References

Primary source

Daniel Kotlar, “On extensions of the Alon-Tarsi Latin Square conjecture”, arXiv:1204.5276 (2012).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1110.1830.

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