Hadamard matrices modulo p and small modular Hadamard matrices
Abstract
We use modular symmetric designs to study the existence of Hadamard matrices modulo certain primes. We solve the -modular and -modular versions of the Hadamard conjecture for all but a finite number of cases. In doing so, we state a conjecture for a sufficient condition for the existence of a -modular Hadamard matrix for all but finitely many cases. When is a primitive root of a prime , we conditionally solve this conjecture and therefore the -modular version of the Hadamard conjecture for all but finitely many cases when , and prove a weaker result for . Finally, we look at constraints on the existence of -modular Hadamard matrices when the size of the matrix is small compared to .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.0148,
title = {Hadamard matrices modulo p and small modular Hadamard matrices},
author = {Vivian Kuperberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0148},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages; to appear in the Journal of Combinatorial Designs; proofs of Lemma 4.7 and Theorem 5.2 altered in response to referees' comments