A -matrix is a matrix whose elements consist only of the numbers
, 0, or 1. The number of distinct
-
matrices (counting row and column permutations, the transpose, and multiplication by
as equivalent) having
different row and column sums for
, 4, 6, ... are 1, 4, 39, 2260, 1338614, ... (OEIS A049475). For example, the
matrix is given by
To get the total number from these counts (assuming that 0 is not the missing sum, which is true for ), multiply by
. In general, if an
-matrix which has
different column and row sums (collectively called line sums; Bodendiek and Burosch 1995), then
1. is even.
2. The number in that does not appear as a line sum is either
or
.
3. Of the largest line sums, half are column sums and half are row sums.
For an
-matrix, the largest possible determinants (Hadamard's maximum determinant problem) are the same as for a (-1,1)-matrix, i.e., 1, 2, 4, 16, 48, 160, ... (OEIS A003433; Ehrlich 1964, Brenner and Cummings 1972) for
, 2, .... The numbers of
-matrices having maximum determinants are 1, 4, 240, 384, 30720, ... (OEIS A051753).