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A Construction Of Difference Sets In High Exponent 2-Groups Using Representation Theory, James A. Davis, Ken Smith

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Nontrivial difference sets in groups of order a power of 2 are part of the family of difference sets called Menon difference sets (or Hadamard), and they have parameters (2^2d+2, 2^2d+1 ±2^d, 2^2d±2^d). In the abelian case, the group has a difference set if and only if the exponent of the group is less than or equal to 2^d+2. In [14], the authors construct a difference set in a nonabelian group of order 64 and exponent 32. This paper generalizes that result to …