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Latin Squares, Partial Latin Squares and its Generalized Quotients 3 L. Yu. Glebsky and Carlos J. Rubio 0 0 2 26.03.2003 r a M Abstract 7 A (partial) Latin square is a table of multiplication of a (partial) quasigroup. Multiplication of a 2 (partial) quasigroup may be considered as a set of triples. We give a necessary and sufficient condition when a set of triples is a quotient of a (partial) Latin square. ] O C 1 Introduction . h Generalized quotient of quasigroup (quotient with respect to an equivalence relation which is not a con- t a gruence) was introduced and studied by A.J.W. Hilton. Such a quotient is neither a quasigroup nor an m algebraic system. It may be thought as a multivalued algebraical system or a set of triples. Theorem 1 [ (A.J.W. Hilton) gives necessary and sufficient conditions when a set of triples is a generalized quotient of a quasigroup. Here we extend it to generalized quotients of partial quasigroups. Investigation of generalized 1 v quotients leads to a more general objects – 3-indexed matrices. The authors of [3] found useful the notion 6 of generalized quotient in their investigations of approximations of algebraic systems. 5 The article is organized as follows. In Section 2 we formulate main results (Theorem 2 and Theorem 3) 3 about 3-indexed matrices. In Section 3 we define generalized quotient partial quasigroup (GQPQ) and gen- 3 eralized uniformly quotient partial quasigroup (GU