The Alon-Jaeger-Tarsi conjecture via group ring identities

Abstract

In this paper we resolve the Alon-Jaeger-Tarsi conjecture for sufficiently large primes. Namely, we show that for any finite field $\mathbb{F}$ of size $61<|\mathbb{F}|\ne 79$ and any nonsingular matrix $M$ over $\mathbb{F}$ there exists a vector $x$ such that neither $x$ nor $Ax$ has a 0 component.