Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4647559 Discrete Mathematics 2013 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

We generalize the notion of orthogonal latin squares to colorings of simple graphs. Twonn-colorings of a graph are said to be orthogonal   if whenever two vertices share a color in one coloring they have distinct colors in the other coloring. We show that the usual bounds on the maximum size of a certain set of orthogonal latin structures such as latin squares, row latin squares, equi-nn squares, single diagonal latin squares, double diagonal latin squares, or sudoku squares are special cases of bounds on orthogonal colorings of graphs.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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