New necessary conditions on (negative) Latin square type partial difference sets in abelian groups

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Abstract: Partial difference sets (for short, PDSs) with parameters (n2, r(nepsilon), epsilonn+r23epsilonr, r2epsilonr) are called Latin square type (respectively negative Latin square type) PDSs if epsilon=1 (respectively epsilon=1). In this paper, we will give restrictions on the parameter r of a (negative) Latin square type partial difference set in an abelian group of non-prime power order. As far as we know no previous general restrictions on r were known. Our restrictions are particularly useful when a is much larger than b. As an application, we show that if there exists an abelian negative Latin square type PDS with parameter set (9p4s,r(3p2s+1),3p2s+r2+3r,r2+r), 1lerlefrac3p2s12, pequiv1pmod4 a prime number and s is an odd positive integer, then there are at most three possible values for r. For two of these three r values, J. Polhill gave constructions in 2009.









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