A nonexistence result for Abelian Menon difference sets using perfect binary arrays (Q1900181)

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A nonexistence result for Abelian Menon difference sets using perfect binary arrays
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    A nonexistence result for Abelian Menon difference sets using perfect binary arrays (English)
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    10 March 1996
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    Perfect binary arrays are used to prove that if an Abelian group \(G= H\times K\times Z_{p^\alpha}\) (\(p\) an odd prime, \(|K|= p^\alpha\), \(p^j\equiv -1\pmod{\exp(H)}\)) contains a Hadamard (Menon) difference set, then \(G\) must be cyclic.
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    binary arrays
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    Abelian group
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    difference set
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