Non-symmetric association schemes of symmetric matrices (Q5906463)

Let \(X_ n\) be the set of \(n \times n\) symmetric matrices over a finite field \(F_ q\) and \((S_ 1,S_ 2) \in R_ 0\) iff \(S_ 1=S_ 2\); \((S_ 1,S_ 2) \in R(r,\xi)\) iff \(S_ 1-S_ 2 = M(n,r, \xi)\); where \(\xi =1\) or 2, \(q\) is a power of an odd prime and \(S_ 1,S_ 2 \in X_ n\). The authors have proved that \(\chi_ n=(X_ n, \{R_ 0,R(r, \xi) | 1 \leq r \leq n\), \(\xi=1\) or 2\}) is an association scheme on class \(2n\) on \(X_ n\). The parameters of \(\chi_ n\) have also been computed.