New necessary conditions on the existence of Abelian difference sets

DOI10.1007/BF01191207MaRDI QIDQ1193535zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Pott

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Combinatorica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01191207

zbMATH Keywords

difference setprojective planeWilbrink's equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

It is still an unsolved conjecture that the order \(n\) of a cyclic (or abelian) finite projective plane (i.e. a plane with a cyclic or abelian automorphism group \(G\) acting sharply transitively on the points) has to be a prime power. \textit{H. A. Wilbrink} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 38, 94-95 (1985; Zbl 0554.05012)] proved an interesting algebraic equation for the corresponding difference set \(D\) in \(\text{GF}(p)G\) provided that the order \(n\) is divisible by \(p\) but not by \(p^ 2\). One can use Wilbrink's equation to get evidence for the above mentioned prime power conjecture. This paper is an attempt to weaken the assumption on \(p\). We derive equations in \(\mathbb{Z}_{p^ i}G\) (using the group ring over the \(p\)-adic number field) if \(p^ i\) is the exact divisor of \(n\). Unfortunately, the equations are at present too complicated to have interesting applications.

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