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Main Author: Miller, Niklas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10231
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author Miller, Niklas
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contents We make the observation that certain group automorphisms that fix a large subgroup of an abelian group cannot be multipliers in any non-trivial abelian difference sets, with the single exception of an involution that can be a multiplier in Hadamard difference sets, provided that the difference set contains a sub-difference set of the same type. We use this observation together with a multiplier theorem to rule out the existence of difference sets, and derive bounds for the numerical multiplier group of a difference set.
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spellingShingle Forbidden multipliers in abelian difference sets
Miller, Niklas
Combinatorics
05B10
We make the observation that certain group automorphisms that fix a large subgroup of an abelian group cannot be multipliers in any non-trivial abelian difference sets, with the single exception of an involution that can be a multiplier in Hadamard difference sets, provided that the difference set contains a sub-difference set of the same type. We use this observation together with a multiplier theorem to rule out the existence of difference sets, and derive bounds for the numerical multiplier group of a difference set.
title Forbidden multipliers in abelian difference sets
topic Combinatorics
05B10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10231