Negaperiodic Golay pairs and Hadamard matrices
Abstract
Apart from the ordinary and the periodic Golay pairs, we define also the negaperiodic Golay pairs. (They occurred first, under a different name, in a paper of Ito.) If a Hadamard matrix is also a Toeplitz matrix, we show that it must be either cyclic or negacyclic. We investigate the construction of Hadamard (and weighing matrices) from two negacyclic blocks (2N-type). The Hadamard matrices of 2N-type are equivalent to negaperiodic Golay pairs. We show that the Turyn multiplication of Golay pairs extends to a more general multiplication: one can multiply Golay pairs of length and negaperiodic Golay pairs of length to obtain negaperiodic Golay pairs of length . We show that the Ito's conjecture about Hadamard matrices is equivalent to the conjecture that negaperiodic Golay pairs exist for all even lengths.
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@article{arxiv.1508.00640,
title = {Negaperiodic Golay pairs and Hadamard matrices},
author = {N. A. Balonin and D. Z. Djokovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00640},
year = {2015}
}
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28 pages