two latin squares of order $n$ are orthogonal if in their superposition, each of the$n^{2}$ ordered pairs of symbols occurs exactly once. colbourn, zhang and zhu, in a seriesof papers, determined the integers $r$ for which there exist a pair of latin squares oforder $n$ having exactly $r$ different ordered pairs in their superposition. dukes andhowell defined the same problem for latin squares ...

We generalize the notion of orthogonal latin squares to colorings of simple graphs. Two n-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-n squares, ...

A diagonal Latin square is a Latin square whose main diagonal and back diagonal are both transversals. A Latin square is self-orthogonal if it is orthogonal to its transpose. In an earlier paper Danhof, Phillips and Wallis considered the question of the existence of self-orthogonal diagonal Latin squares of order 10. In this paper we shall present some constructions of self-orthogonal diagonal ...

A diagonal Latin square is a Latin square whose main diagonal and back diagonal are both transversals. In this paper we give some constructions of pairwise orthogonal diagonal Latin squares. As an application of such constructions we obtain some new infinite classes of pairwise orthogonal diagonal Latin squares which are useful in the study of pairwise orthogonal diagonal Latin squares.

We introduce orthogonal quantum Latin squares, which restrict to traditional orthogonal Latin squares, and investigate their application in quantum information science. We use quantum Latin squares to build maximally entangled bases, and show how mutually unbiased maximally entangled bases can be constructed in square dimension from orthogonal quantum Latin squares. We also compare our construc...

It is known that t mutually orthogonal latin squares of order n generate a b t 2c-error correcting code with n codewords. In this paper we consider latin squares of order n made up of elements taken from Zn. In this situation we consider when this code is linear. We present neccessary and sufficient conditions on the latin squares and obtain a method of constructing a maximal family of mutually...

A diagonal Latin square is a Latin square whose main diagonal and back diagonal are both transversals. Let dr be the least integer such that for all n > dr there exist r pairwise orthogonal diagonal Latin squares of order n. In a previous paper Wallis and Zhu gave several bounds on the dr. In this paper we shall present some constructions of pairwise orthogonal diagonal Latin squares and conseq...

We undertake an investigation of combinatorial designs engendered by cellular automata (CA), focusing in particular on orthogonal Latin squares and orthogonal arrays. The motivation is of cryptographic nature. Indeed, we consider the problem of employing CA to define threshold secret sharing schemes via orthogonal Latin squares. We first show how to generate Latin squares through bipermutive CA...