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<strong>LitNet</strong> Akademies Jaargang 9 (2), April 2012<br />

d<strong>in</strong>g case with respect to orders for which SOLSSOMs exist. S<strong>in</strong>ce a SOLSSOM of order n <strong>in</strong><br />

standard form is equivalent to a play<strong>in</strong>g schedule for a spouse-avoid<strong>in</strong>g mixed-doubles roundrob<strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>te</strong>nnis tournament <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g n married couples, this shows that no such tournament can<br />

be scheduled for 10 married couples.<br />

There is an appendix at the end of the paper which conta<strong>in</strong>s lists of (i) the (row, column)paratopism<br />

class representatives of idempo<strong>te</strong>nt symmetric Latyn squares of orders n = 5,7,9<br />

and (ii) the (row, column)-paratopism class representatives of standard SOLSSOMs of orders<br />

n = 4,5,7,8,9.<br />

n Dist<strong>in</strong>ct<br />

SOLSSOMs<br />

Standard<br />

SOLSSOMs<br />

Transposeis<strong>om</strong>orphism<br />

classes of<br />

SOLSSOMs<br />

(Row, column)paratopism<br />

classes of<br />

SOLSSOMs<br />

2 0 0 0 0<br />

3 0 0 0 0<br />

4 1 152 2 31 1<br />

5 172 800 12 749 1<br />

6 0 0 0 0<br />

7 12 192 768 000 480 1 210 622 2<br />

8 608 662 978 560 000 374 400 7 547 904 042 32<br />

9 464 573 723 443 200 000 3 528 000 640 121 719 688 26<br />

10 0 0 0 0<br />

Sloane #A166490 #A166489 #A166488 #A166487<br />

Tabel 1: Enumeration of various equivalence classes of SOLSSOMs of orders 4 n 10. The last row<br />

of the table conta<strong>in</strong>s the sequence numbers <strong>in</strong> Sloane’s Onl<strong>in</strong>e Encyclopedia of In<strong>te</strong>ger Sequences [16]<br />

correspond<strong>in</strong>g to the table columns.<br />

Keywords: Lat<strong>in</strong> square, self-orthogonal Lat<strong>in</strong> square, symmetric Lat<strong>in</strong> square, SOLSSOM,<br />

enumeration.<br />

Inleid<strong>in</strong>g<br />

In 1972 was <strong>die</strong> Briarcliff Racquet Club <strong>in</strong> New York op soek na ’n skedule vir ’n gemengdedubbels<br />

<strong>te</strong>nnistoernooi vir getroude pare (m.a.w. waar<strong>in</strong> elke wedstryd uit twee opponerende<br />

spanne bestaan, waar elke span een man en een vrou bevat), sodat:<br />

(i) geen speler (as spanmaat of opponent) <strong>in</strong> <strong>die</strong>selfde wedstryd as sy/haar eggenoot speel<br />

nie<br />

(ii) elke speler elke ander speler (behalwe sy/haar eggenoot) presies een keer <strong>te</strong>enstaan<br />

(iii) elke speler presies een keer saam met elke speler van <strong>die</strong> <strong>te</strong>enoorges<strong>te</strong>lde geslag (behalwe<br />

sy/haar eggenoot) <strong>in</strong> ’n span speel<br />

(iv) wedstryde <strong>in</strong> <strong>die</strong> m<strong>in</strong>imum getal rond<strong>te</strong>s gegroepeer word waar geen speler meer as een<br />

keer per rond<strong>te</strong> speel nie en <strong>die</strong> rond<strong>te</strong>s elk ewe veel wedstryde bevat.<br />

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