On difference sets with small

DOI10.1007/S10801-020-00992-XMaRDI QIDQ2114777zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel M. Gordon

Publication date 15 March 2022

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07292

zbMATH Keywords

difference setsbiplanesprime power conjecture

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)

Abstract: In a 1989 paper cite{arasu2}, Arasu used an observation about multipliers to show that no $(352,27,2)$ difference set exists in any abelian group. The proof is quite short and required no computer assistance. We show that it may be applied to a wide range of parameters $(v,k,lambda)$, particularly for small values of $lambda$. With it a computer search was able to show that the Prime Power Conjecture is true up to order $2cdot10^{10}$, extend Hughes and Dickey's computations for $lambda=2$ and $kleq5000$ up to $10^{10}$, and show nonexistence for many other parameters.

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