The no-pinned-entry construction conjecture for even-order latin squares

Let n28n\geqslant 28 be an even integer. A latin square of order nn is an n×nn\times n array in which each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and column, and a transversal is a selection of nn entries containing one representative of every row, column, and symbol. An entry is pinned if it belongs to every transversal. No-pinned-entry construction conjecture. There is a latin square of order nn that has no two disjoint transversals, but also has no pinned entry. The claim gives even-order latin squares whose transversals pairwise intersect without all sharing one entry; the paper states that its constructions support the conjecture, but that a general argument guaranteeing the required transversals is not known.

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Afsane Ghafari and Ian M. Wanless, “Latin Squares whose transversals intersect in unusual ways”, arXiv:2607.17547 (2026).

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