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Partial Difference Sets in $C_{2^n} \times C_{2^n}$

Combinatorics 2018-11-29 v1

Abstract

We give an algorithm for enumerating the regular nontrivial partial difference sets (PDS) in the group Gn=C2n×C2nG_n = C_{2^n}\times C_{2^n}. We use our algorithm to obtain all of these PDS in GnG_n for 2n92\leq n\leq 9, and we obtain partial results for n=10n=10 and n=11n=11. Most of these PDS are new. For n4n\le 4 we also identify group-inequivalent PDS. Our approach involves constructing tree diagrams and canonical colorings of these diagrams. Both the total number and the number of group-inequivalent PDS in GnG_n appear to grow super-exponentially in nn. For n=9n=9, a typical canonical coloring represents in excess of 1014610^{146} group-inequivalent PDS, and there are precisely 25202^{520} reversible Hadamard difference sets.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11223,
  title  = {Partial Difference Sets in $C_{2^n} \times C_{2^n}$},
  author = {Martin E. Malandro and Ken W. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11223},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

29 pages, 11 tables, 8 figures

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