Latin squares with highly transitive automorphism groups

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Abstract

A Latin square is considered to be a set of n^2 cells with three block systems. An automorphism is a permutation of the cells which preserves each block system. The automorphism group of a Latin square necessarily has at least 4 orbits on unordered pairs of cells if n > 2. It is shown that there are exactly 4 orbits if and only if the square is the composition table of an elementary abelian 2-group or the cyclic group of order 3.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)18-22
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of the Australian Mathematical Society, Series A
Volume33
Publication statusPublished - 1982

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