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Volume 2 |Article ID 297509 | 11 pages | https://doi.org/10.1155/S1110757X02203022

Faster backtracking algorithms for the generation of symmetry-invariant permutations

Oscar Moreno,1 John Ramírez,2 Dorothy Bollman,3 and Edusmildo Orozco3

1Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR 00931-3355, USA

2The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309, USA

3Department of Mathematics, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR 00681-9018, USA

Received05 Mar 2002

Abstract

A new backtracking algorithm is developed for generating classes of permutations, that are invariant under the group G4 of rigid motions of the square generated by reflections about the horizontal and vertical axes. Special cases give a new algorithm for generating solutions of the classical n-queens problem, as well as a new algorithm for generating Costas sequences, which are used in encoding radar and sonar signals. Parallel implementations of this latter algorithm have yielded new Costas sequences for length n, 19≤n≤24.

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