Neighbour Sum Patterns : Chessboards to Toroidal Worlds

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Autores principales: Dutta, Sayan, Mandal, Ayanava, Gupta, Sohom, Chatterjee, Sourin
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Publicado: 2023
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author Dutta, Sayan
Mandal, Ayanava
Gupta, Sohom
Chatterjee, Sourin
author_facet Dutta, Sayan
Mandal, Ayanava
Gupta, Sohom
Chatterjee, Sourin
contents We say that a chessboard filled with integer entries satisfies the neighbour-sum property if the number appearing on each cell is the sum of entries in its neighbouring cells, where neighbours are cells sharing a common edge or vertex. We show that an $n\times n$ chessboard satisfies this property if and only if $n\equiv 5\pmod 6$. Existence of solutions is further investigated of rectangular, toroidal boards, as well as on Neumann neighbourhoods, including a nice connection to discrete harmonic functions. Construction of solutions on infinite boards are also presented. Finally, answers to three dimensional analogues of these boards are explored using properties of cyclotomic polynomials and relevant ideas conjectured.
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spellingShingle Neighbour Sum Patterns : Chessboards to Toroidal Worlds
Dutta, Sayan
Mandal, Ayanava
Gupta, Sohom
Chatterjee, Sourin
Number Theory
Commutative Algebra
Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
11C20, 39A06, 12H99, 15B05
We say that a chessboard filled with integer entries satisfies the neighbour-sum property if the number appearing on each cell is the sum of entries in its neighbouring cells, where neighbours are cells sharing a common edge or vertex. We show that an $n\times n$ chessboard satisfies this property if and only if $n\equiv 5\pmod 6$. Existence of solutions is further investigated of rectangular, toroidal boards, as well as on Neumann neighbourhoods, including a nice connection to discrete harmonic functions. Construction of solutions on infinite boards are also presented. Finally, answers to three dimensional analogues of these boards are explored using properties of cyclotomic polynomials and relevant ideas conjectured.
title Neighbour Sum Patterns : Chessboards to Toroidal Worlds
topic Number Theory
Commutative Algebra
Combinatorics
Rings and Algebras
11C20, 39A06, 12H99, 15B05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04401