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Trades in complex Hadamard matrices

Combinatorics 2015-12-17 v1

Abstract

A trade in a complex Hadamard matrix is a set of entries which can be changed to obtain a different complex Hadamard matrix. We show that in a real Hadamard matrix of order nn all trades contain at least nn entries. We call a trade rectangular if it consists of a submatrix that can be multiplied by some scalar c1c \neq 1 to obtain another complex Hadamard matrix. We give a characterisation of rectangular trades in complex Hadamard matrices of order nn and show that they all contain at least nn entries. We conjecture that all trades in complex Hadamard matrices contain at least nn entries.

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@article{arxiv.1502.02353,
  title  = {Trades in complex Hadamard matrices},
  author = {Padraig Ó Catháin and Ian M. Wanless},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02353},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, no figures

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