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On strong Skolem starters for $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$

Combinatorics 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

In 1991, N. Shalaby conjectured that any additive group Zn\mathbb{Z}_n, where n1n\equiv1 or 3 (mod 8) and n11n \geq11, admits a strong Skolem starter and constructed these starters of all admissible orders 11n5711\leq n\leq57. Shalaby and et al. [O. Ogandzhanyants, M. Kondratieva and N. Shalaby, \emph{Strong Skolem Starters}, J. Combin. Des. {\bf 27} (2018), no. 1, 5--21] was proved if n=Πi=1kpiαin=\Pi_{i=1}^{k}p_i^{\alpha_i}, where pip_i is a prime number such that ord(2)pi2ord(2)_{p_i}\equiv 2 (mod 4) and αi\alpha_i is a non-negative integer, for all i=1,,ki=1,\ldots,k, then Zn\mathbb{Z}_n admits a strong Skolem starter. On the other hand, the author [A. V\'azquez-\'Avila, \emph{A note on strong Skolem starters}, Discrete Math. Accepted] gives different families of strong Skolem starters for Zp\mathbb{Z}_p than Shalaby et al, where p3p\equiv3 (mod 8) is an odd prime. Recently, the author [A. V\'azquez-\'Avila, \emph{New families of strong Skolem starters}, Submitted] gives different families of strong Skolem starters of Zpn\mathbb{Z}_{p^n} than Shalaby et al, where p3p\equiv3 (mod 8) and nn is an integer greater than 1. In this paper, we gives some different families of strong Skolem starters of Zpq\mathbb{Z}_{pq}, where p,q3p,q\equiv3 (mod 8) are prime numbers such that p<qp<q and (p1)(q1)(p-1)\nmid(q-1).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2001.02220,
  title  = {On strong Skolem starters for $\mathbb{Z}_{pq}$},
  author = {Adrián Vázquez-Ávila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02220},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1907.05266

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