The Mann test for divisible difference sets

DOI10.1007/BF01787628MaRDI QIDQ1180431zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. T. Arasu, Dieter Jungnickel, Alexander Pott

Publication date 27 June 1992

Published in Graphs and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01787628

zbMATH Keywords

difference setsMann test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

A powerful existence test for DDS's generalizing Mann's [\textit{H. B. Mann}, Balanced incomplete block designs and Abelian difference sets, Ill. J. Math. 8, 252--261 (1964; Zbl 0122.24902)] too complex to be quoted here is given, with several applications and examples. To quote a proposition: if there exist a \((4s-1,n,2s-1,\lambda)\)-RDS in a direct product of groups \(N\) (Abelian) and \(H\) then no prime \(p\) dividing the square-free part of \(2s-1\) satisfies a congruence \(p^f\equiv-1\pmod q\), where \(q\) is any prime divisor of \(n\).

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