On the asymptotic existence of Hadamard matrices

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Abstract: It is conjectured that Hadamard matrices exist for all orders 4t (t>0). However, despite a sustained effort over more than five decades, the strongest overall existence results are asymptotic results of the form: for all odd natural numbers k, there is a Hadamard matrix of order k2[a+blog2k], where a and b are fixed non-negative constants. To prove the Hadamard Conjecture, it is sufficient to show that we may take a=2 and b=0. Since Seberry's ground-breaking result, which showed that we may take a=0 and b=2, there have been several improvements where b has been by stages reduced to 3/8. In this paper, we show that for all epsilon>0, the set of odd numbers k for which there is a Hadamard matrix of order k22+[epsilonlog2k] has positive density in the set of natural numbers. The proof adapts a number-theoretic argument of Erdos and Odlyzko to show that there are enough Paley Hadamard matrices to give the result.









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