On Singleton arrays and Cauchy matrices (Q1813732)

Let \(\text{GF}(q)\) be the finite field of \(q\) elements, and let \(S_ q\) denote the triangular array whose elements are: \(s_{0j}=s_{i0}=1\) \((i,j=0,\dots,q-1)\), \(s_{ij}=a_{i+j-1}\) \((i,j\geq 1; i+j\leq q-1)\), where \(a_ i\in\text{GF}(q)\). We call \(S_ q\) a Singleton array if every square submatrix of it is nonsingular. We construct all Singleton arrays for any finite field \(\text{GF}(q)\). There exist \(\varphi(q-1)\) arrays for each \(\text{GF}(q)\), where \(\varphi\) is the Euler function.