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By Louis H. Kauffman

ISBN-10: 0691083363

ISBN-13: 9780691083360

This exploration of combinatorics and knot thought is aimed at complicated undergraduates and graduate scholars. the writer attracts upon his paintings as a topologist to demonstrate the relationships among knot concept and statistical mechanics, quantum thought, and algebra, in addition to the position of knot thought in combinatorics. 1983 version. contains fifty one illustrations.

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Am+d exists for which, for each 1 $ Ie < m, the differences represent the m cyclotomic classes of GF( mt + 1) (compute subscripts modulo m + 2 as needed). In other words, for a fixed Ie, if CJi+1c - CJi = ",mil+a and aj+1c - aj = ",my +tI , we find that a "1. f3 (mod m). Then form a single column of length m + 2 whose first entry is empty, and whose remaining entries are (all"" am+t). Form t columns by multiplying this column by the powers of ",m. From each of these t columns, form m + 2 columns by taking the m + 2 cyclic shifts of the column.

Let A be an OA(k,n) on the n symbols in X. On V = X x {I, ... ,k} (a set of size kn), form a set B of k-sets as follows. i' i) : I :$ i :$ k} in. B. Then let g be the partition of V whose classes are {X x {i} : I :$ i:$ k}. Then (V,g,B) is a TD(k,n). (k, n) from a TD(k, n). Thus, k MOLS of side n, a TD(k + 2, n), and an OA(k + 2, n) are all equivalent. In each of these disguises, mutually orthogonal latin squares have been extensively studied and lue central in combinatorial design theory and in experimental design theory.

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