An upper bound on the number of high-dimensional permutations

What is the higher-dimensional analog of a permutation? If we think of a permutation as given by a permutation matrix, then the following definition suggests itself: A d-dimensional permutation of order n is an n×n×..×n=[n]^d+1 array of zeros and ones in which every line contains a unique 1 entry. A line here is a set of entries of the form {(x₁,..,x_i−1,y,x_i+1,..,x_d+1)|n≥y≥1} for some index d+1≥i≥1 and some choice of x_j ∈ [n] for all j ≠ i. It is easy to observe that a one-dimensional permutation is simply a permutation matrix and that a two-dimensional permutation is synonymous with an order-n Latin square. We seek an estimate for the number of d-dimensional permutations. Our main result is the following upper bound on their number (Formula presented.) We tend to believe that this is actually the correct number, but the problem of proving the complementary lower bound remains open. Our main tool is an adaptation of Brégman’s [1] proof of the Minc conjecture on permanents. More concretely, our approach is very close in spirit to Schrijver’s [11] and Radhakrishnan’s [10] proofs of Brégman’s theorem.