The structure of the abelian groups containing McFarland difference sets

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(95)90096-9MaRDI QIDQ1805061zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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 groupMcFarland difference setSylow \(p\)-subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10) Abelian groups (20K99)

Review text

The paper presents some characterizations of the structure of the Sylow \(p\)-subgroup of an abelian group of order \(q^{d+ 1}(q^{d+ 1}+ q- 2)/(q- 1)\), \(q= p^f\), \(p\) a prime, that admits a McFarland difference set.

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