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01-09-2014
On the non-existence of maximal difference matrices of deficiency 1
Published in: Designs, Codes and Cryptography | Issue 3/2014
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Abstract
A \(k\times u\lambda \) matrix \(M=[d_{ij}]\) with entries from a group \(U\) of order \(u\) is called a \((u,k,\lambda )\)-difference matrix over \(U\) if the list of quotients \(d_{i\ell }{d_{j\ell }}^{-1}, 1 \le \ell \le u\lambda ,\) contains each element of \(U\) exactly \(\lambda \) times for all \(i\ne j.\) Jungnickel has shown that \(k \le u\lambda \) and it is conjectured that the equality holds only if \(U\) is a \(p\)-group for a prime \(p.\) On the other hand, Winterhof has shown that some known results on the non-existence of \((u,u\lambda ,\lambda )\)-difference matrices are extended to \((u,u\lambda -1,\lambda )\)-difference matrices. This fact suggests us that there is a close connection between these two cases. In this article we show that any \((u,u\lambda -1,\lambda )\)-difference matrix over an abelian \(p\)-group can be extended to a \((u,u\lambda ,\lambda )\)-difference matrix.