The structure of the abelian groups containing McFarland difference sets

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(95)90096-9zbMath0830.05013MaRDI QIDQ1805061

Bernhard Schmidt, Siu Lun Ma

Publication date: 11 June 1995

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(95)90096-9

zbMATH Keywords

abelian group; Sylow \(p\)-subgroup; McFarland difference set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

20K99: Abelian groups

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