Negative Latin square type partial difference sets in nonelementary abelian 2-groups

Details Negative Latin square type partial difference sets in nonelementary abelian 2-groups Negative Latin square type partial difference sets in nonelementary abelian 2-groups

2004-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/math/0407423v1

Mathematics

Combinatorics

17 pages. To appear in Journal London Math. Society

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Combining results on quadrics in projective geometries with an algebraic interplay between finite fields and Galois rings, we construct the first known family of partial difference sets with negative Latin square type parameters in nonelementary abelian groups, the groups $\Z_4^{2k}\times \Z_2^{4 \ell-4k}$ for all $k$ when $\ell$ is odd and for all $k < \ell$ when $\ell$ is even. Similarly, we construct partial difference sets with Latin square type parameters in the same groups for all $k$ when $\ell$ is even and for all $k<\ell$ when $\ell$ is odd. These constructions provide the first example that the non-homomorphic bijection approach outlined by Hagita and Schmidt \cite{hagitaschmidt} can produce difference sets in groups that previously had no known constructions. Computer computations indicate that the strongly regular graphs associated to the PDSs are not isomorphic to the known graphs, and we conjecture that the family of strongly regular graphs will be new.

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