Linking systems of difference sets

DOI10.1002/JCD.21636MaRDI QIDQ5225118zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shuxing Li, Samuel Simon, Jonathan Jedwab

Publication date 19 July 2019

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Designs (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04405, http://summit.sfu.ca/item/17464

zbMATH Keywords

difference matrixdifference setgroup ringlinkingsymmetric design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A linking system of difference sets is a collection of mutually related group difference sets, whose advantageous properties have been used to extend classical constructions of systems of linked symmetric designs. The central problems are to determine which groups contain a linking system of difference sets, and how large such a system can be. All previous constructive results for linking systems of difference sets are restricted to 2-groups. We use an elementary projection argument to show that neither the McFarland/Dillon nor the Spence construction of difference sets can give rise to a linking system of difference sets in non-2-groups. We make a connection to Kerdock and bent sets, which provides large linking systems of difference sets in elementary abelian 2-groups. We give a new construction for linking systems of difference sets in 2-groups, taking advantage of a previously unrecognized connection with group difference matrices. This construction simplifies and extends prior results, producing larger linking systems than before in certain 2-groups, new linking systems in other 2-groups for which no system was previously known, and the first known examples in nonabelian groups.

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• On central partial difference sets in non-abelian p-groups

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