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Almost Difference Sets And Reversible Divisible Difference Sets, James A. Davis Dec 1992

Almost Difference Sets And Reversible Divisible Difference Sets, James A. Davis

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Let G be a group of order mn and N a subgroup of G of order n. If D is a k-subset of G, then D is called a (m, n, k, λ1, λ2) divisible difference set (DDS) provided that the differences dd'-1 for d, d'D, d ≠ d' contain every nonidentity element of N exactly λ1 times and every element of G - N exactly λ2 times. Difference sets are used to generate designs, as described by [4] and [9]. D will be …


Difference Sets In Abelian 2-Groups, James A. Davis Jul 1991

Difference Sets In Abelian 2-Groups, James A. Davis

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Examples of difference sets are given for large classes of abelian groups of order 22d + 2. This fills in the gap of knowledge between Turyn's exponent condition and Dillon's rank condition. Specifically, it is shown thatℤ/(2d)×ℤ/(2d+2) andℤ/(2d+1)×Z/(2d+1) both admit difference sets, and these have many implications.


A Note On Nonabelian (64, 28, 12) Difference Sets, James A. Davis Jan 1991

A Note On Nonabelian (64, 28, 12) Difference Sets, James A. Davis

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

The existence of difference sets in abelian 2-groups is a recently settled problem [5]; this note extends the abelian constructs of difference sets to nonabelian groups of order 64.