Archdeacon's existence conjecture for integer Heffter arrays
Archdeacon's existence conjecture for integer Heffter arrays
Let be integers such that , , and . An integer Heffter array is an partially filled array with filled cells in each row and filled cells in each column, whose entries use one representative from each pair partitioning , and whose rows and columns each sum to zero.
Archdeacon's conjecture. There exists an integer Heffter array if and only if
This conjecture gives the expected necessary and sufficient arithmetic condition for the existence of integer Heffter arrays with at least three filled cells in every row and column. The source presents it as an established conjecture in the literature; its resolution is not specified here.
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Primary source
Fiorenza Morini and Marco Antonio Pellegrini, “Signed magic arrays: existence and constructions”, arXiv:2410.04101 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2407.15183.
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