On the Spectrum of Mutually r-orthogonal Idempotent Latin Squares

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TwoLatinsquaresofordervarer-orthogonaliftheirsuperpositionproducesexactlyrdistinctorderedpairs.Thetwosquaresaresaidtober-orthogonalidempotentLatinsquaresanddenotedbyr-MOILS(v)iftheyareallidempotent.Inthispaper,weshowthatforanyintegerv≥28,thereexistsanr-MOILS(v)ifandonlyifr∈[v,v~2]\{v+1,v~2-1}.