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Old Dominion University

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

1997

Hadamard matroid

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The Hadamard Matroid And An Anomaly In Its Single Element Extensions, C. H. Cooke Jan 1997

The Hadamard Matroid And An Anomaly In Its Single Element Extensions, C. H. Cooke

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

A nonstandard vector space is formulated, whose bases afford a representation of what is called a Hadamard matroid, Mp. For prime p, existence of Mp is equivalent to the existence of both a classical Hadamard matrix H(p,p) and a certain affine resolvable, balanced incomplete block design AR(p). An anomaly in the representable single element extension of a Hadamard matroid is discussed.