Empilements de sphères
The fundamental combinatorial structure of a net in is its associated set of mutually orthogonal Latin squares. We define equivalence classes of sets of orthogonal Latin squares by label equivalences of the lines of the corresponding net in . Then we count these equivalence classes for small cases. Finally we prove that the realization spaces of these classes in are empty to show some non-existence results for 4-nets in .
We show that discrete exponentials form a basis of discrete holomorphic functions on a finite critical map. On a combinatorially convex set, the discrete polynomials form a basis as well.
It is a known result that if a finite abelian group of odd order is a direct product of lacunary cyclic subsets, then at least one of the factors must be a subgroup. The paper gives an elementary proof that does not rely on characters.