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Constructions of transitive latin hypercubes
A function invertible in each argument is
called a latin hypercube. A collection of
permutations of is called an autotopism of a latin hypercube
if for all , ...,
. We call a latin hypercube isotopically transitive (topolinear) if its
group of autotopisms acts transitively (regularly) on all collections of
argument values. We prove that the number of nonequivalent topolinear latin
hypercubes grows exponentially with respect to if is even and
exponentially with respect to if is divisible by a square. We show a
connection of the class of isotopically transitive latin squares with the class
of G-loops, known in noncommutative algebra, and establish the existence of a
topolinear latin square that is not a group isotope. We characterize the class
of isotopically transitive latin hypercubes of orders and .
Keywords: transitive code, propelinear code, latin square, latin hypercube,
autotopism, G-loop.Comment: 18 pages. v3: revised, accepted version; v2: the paper has been
completely rewritten (v1 can contain incorrect statements