New results on large sets of orthogonal arrays and orthogonal arrays (Q6584897)

An orthogonal array (OA) of strength \(t\), denoted OA\((N,k,v,t)\), is an \(N\times k\) matrix of elements from \(\mathbb{Z}_v\) such that in any set of \(t\) columns, every possible \(t\)-tuple of elements from \(\mathbb{Z}_v\) occurs equally often. A large set of orthogonal arrays (LOA) is a set of OA\((N,k,v,t)\) with the property that every \(k\)-tuple of elements from \(\mathbb{Z}_v\) occurs precisely once amongst the rows of the orthogonal arrays in the set. This paper uses a variety of (mostly known) methods for constructing OAs and LOAs, including Kronecker products, difference matrices, Hadamard matrices and finite fields. The authors find large sets for various parameters and then use these to give new existence results for orthogonal arrays of strength \(t\ge4\).