Difference sets disjoint from a subgroup
Group Theory
2017-03-22 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We study finite groups having a subgroup and such that the multiset has every non-identity element occur the same number of times (such a is called a {\it difference set}). We show that has to be normal, that , and that for all . We show that is contained in every normal subgroup of prime index, and other properties. We give a -parameter family of examples of such groups. We show that such groups have Schur rings with four principal sets.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.06979,
title = {Difference sets disjoint from a subgroup},
author = {Courtney Hoagland and Stephen P. Humphries and Seth Poulsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06979},
year = {2017}
}