Some nonexistence and asymptotic existence results for weighing matrices (Q2402948)

Summary: Orthogonal designs and weighing matrices have many applications in areas such as coding theory, cryptography, wireless networking, and communication. In this paper, we first show that if positive integer \(k\) cannot be written as the sum of three integer squares, then there does not exist any skew-symmetric weighing matrix of order \(4 n\) and weight \(k\), where \(n\) is an odd positive integer. Then we show that, for any square \(k\), there is an integer \(N(k)\) such that, for each \(n \geq N(k)\), there is a symmetric weighing matrix of order \(n\) and weight \(k\). Moreover, we improve some of the asymptotic existence results for weighing matrices obtained by \textit{P. Eades} [Ars Comb. 1, 109--118 (1976; Zbl 0332.05019)], and \textit{A. V. Geramita} and \textit{J. Seberry} [Orthogonal designs. Quadratic forms and Hadamard matrices. New York, Basel: Marcel Dekker Inc. (1979; Zbl 0411.05023)].