On abelian difference sets

MaRDI QIDQ4247577zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors K. T. Arasu, Surinder K. Sehgal

Publication date 5 December 1999

zbMATH Keywords

designdifference setHadamard matrixmultiplierprojective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10) Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25)

Review text

The paper is a short survey on abelian difference sets. It contains a description of the known series. The most important and classical concepts in the theory (multipliers, characters, tools from algebraic number theory) are explained. The paper contains no proofs, the results are just summarized. It is mostly intended for an impatient reader who wants to know only basic facts about difference sets. Important recent developments are neglected, mostly due to the fact that 27 pages are not enough to cover all the exciting new results on difference sets discovered recently. For instance, the concept of building sets due to Davis and Jedwab is treated only in a few sentences; see \textit{J. Davis} and \textit{J. Jedwab} [A unifying construction for difference sets, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 80, No. 1, 13-78 (1997; Zbl 0884.05019)]. Basically nothing is said about Schmidt's important new nonexistence results; see \textit{B. Schmidt} [Cyclotomic integers and finite geometry, J. Am. Math. Soc. 12, No. 4, 929-952 (1999)]. The paper contains an interesting list of the existence status of abelian difference sets with \(k\leq 150\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0911.00010].

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