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Transversals, near transversals, and diagonals in iterated groups and quasigroups

Authors :
Taranenko, Anna A.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

Given a binary quasigroup $G$ of order $n$, a $d$-iterated quasigroup $G[d]$ is the $(d+1)$-ary quasigroup equal to the $d$-times composition of $G$ with itself. The Cayley table of every $d$-ary quasigroup is a $d$-dimensional latin hypercube. Transversals and diagonals in multiary quasigroups are defined so as to coincide with those in the corresponding latin hypercube. We prove that if a group $G$ of order $n$ satisfies the Hall--Paige condition, then the number of transversals in $G[d]$ is equal to $ \frac{n!}{ |G'| n^{n-1}} \cdot n!^{d} (1 + o(1))$ for large $d$, where $G'$ is the commutator subgroup of $G$. For a general quasigroup $G$, we obtain similar estimations on the numbers of transversals and near transversals in $G[d]$ and develop a method for counting diagonals of other types in iterated quasigroups.<br />Comment: Minor corrections, accepted version

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2006.03786
Document Type :
Working Paper