A note on new semi-regular divisible difference sets

DOI10.1007/BF01418532MaRDI QIDQ1309830zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James A. Davis, Jonathan Jedwab

Publication date 6 January 1994

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01418532

zbMATH Keywords

divisible designsdivisible difference sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a group of order \(m\cdot n\) containing a normal subgroup \(N\) of order \(n\). An \((m,n,k,\lambda_ 1,\lambda_ 2)\)-difference set in \(G\) is a \(k\)-subset of \(G\) such that every element in \(G\backslash N\) has exactly \(\lambda_ 1\) representations as a difference with elements from \(R\) and the non-zero elements in \(N\) have exactly \(\lambda_ 1\) representations of this type. Divisible difference sets correspond to divisible designs with \(G\) as an automorphism group acting sharply transitively on points and blocks. Divisible designs and divisible difference sets are called semi-regular if \(k^ 2= mn\lambda_ 2\). Not many examples of semi-regular divisible difference sets are known: One examples is in \textit{D. Jungnickel} [Can. J. Math. 34, 257-297 (1982; Zbl 0465.05011)], another example in the reviewers ``Habilitationsschrift. The paper by Davis and Jedwab contains another family. If the elementary- abelian group \(\text{EA}(q)\) contains a \((q,k',\lambda')\)-difference set, then there exists a semi-regular divisible difference set with parameters \((m,q^{d+1},q^ d mk',q^ d(mk'- q^ d(k'-\lambda')), q^{d-1} k'{}^ 2 m)\), where \(m= (q^{d+1}- 1)/(q-1)\).

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