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Record W4410382679 · doi:10.1002/jcd.21988

How to Burn a Latin Square

2025· article· en· W4410382679 on OpenAlexafffund
A. Bonato, Caleb Jones, Trent G. Marbach, Teddy Mishura

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Combinatorial Designs · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
Topicgraph theory and CDMA systems
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsLatin squareMathematicsSquare (algebra)CombinatoricsStatisticsGeometryFood science

Abstract

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ABSTRACT We investigate the lazy burning process for Latin squares by studying their associated hypergraphs. In lazy burning, a set of vertices in a hypergraph is initially burned, and that burning spreads to neighboring vertices over time via a specified propagation rule. The lazy burning number is the minimum number of initially burned vertices that eventually burns all vertices. The hypergraphs associated with Latin squares include the ‐uniform hypergraph, whose vertices and hyperedges correspond to the entries and lines (i.e., sets of rows, columns, or symbols) of the Latin square, respectively, and the 3‐uniform hypergraph, which has vertices corresponding to the lines of the Latin square and hyperedges induced by its entries. Using sequences of vertices that together form a vertex cover, we show that for a Latin square of order , the lazy burning number of its ‐uniform hypergraph is bounded below by and above by These bounds are shown to be tight using cyclic Latin squares and powers of intercalates. For the 3‐uniform hypergraph case, we show that the lazy burning number of Latin squares is one plus its shortest connected chain of subsquares. We determine the lazy burning number of Latin square hypergraphs derived from finitely generated groups. We finish with open problems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.022

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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