Goethals--Seidel difference families with symmetric or skew base blocks

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Djokovic, Dragomir Z., Kotsireas, Ilias S.
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866929216204832768
author Djokovic, Dragomir Z.
Kotsireas, Ilias S.
author_facet Djokovic, Dragomir Z.
Kotsireas, Ilias S.
contents We single out a class of difference families which is widely used in some constructions of Hadamard matrices and which we call Goethals--Seidel (GS) difference families. They consist of four subsets (base blocks) of a finite abelian group of order $v$, which can be used to construct Hadamard matrices via the well-known Goethals--Seidel array. We consider the special class of these families in cyclic groups, where each base block is either symmetric or skew. We omit the well-known case where all four blocks are symmetric. By extending previous computations by several authors, we complete the classification of GS-difference families of this type for odd $v<50$. In particular, we have constructed the first examples of so called good matrices, G-matrices and best matrices of order 43, and good matrices and G-matrices of order 45. We also point out some errors in one of the cited references.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_1802_00556
institution arXiv
publishDate 2018
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Goethals--Seidel difference families with symmetric or skew base blocks
Djokovic, Dragomir Z.
Kotsireas, Ilias S.
Combinatorics
05B10, 05B20
We single out a class of difference families which is widely used in some constructions of Hadamard matrices and which we call Goethals--Seidel (GS) difference families. They consist of four subsets (base blocks) of a finite abelian group of order $v$, which can be used to construct Hadamard matrices via the well-known Goethals--Seidel array. We consider the special class of these families in cyclic groups, where each base block is either symmetric or skew. We omit the well-known case where all four blocks are symmetric. By extending previous computations by several authors, we complete the classification of GS-difference families of this type for odd $v<50$. In particular, we have constructed the first examples of so called good matrices, G-matrices and best matrices of order 43, and good matrices and G-matrices of order 45. We also point out some errors in one of the cited references.
title Goethals--Seidel difference families with symmetric or skew base blocks
topic Combinatorics
05B10, 05B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.00556