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Existence of (q, 7, 1) difference families with q a prime power

โœ Scribed by K. Chen; R. Wei; L. Zhu


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
134 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
1063-8539

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Abstract

The existence of a (q,k, 1) difference family in GF(q) has been completely solved for kโ€‰=โ€‰3,4,5,6. For kโ€‰=โ€‰7 only partial results have been given. In this article, we continue the investigation and use Weil's theorem on character sums to show that the necessary condition for the existence of a (q,7,1) difference family in GF(q), i.e. qโ€‰โ‰กโ€‰1; (mod 42) is also sufficient except for qโ€‰=โ€‰43 and possibly except for qโ€‰=โ€‰127, qโ€‰=โ€‰211, qโ€‰=โ€‰31^6^ and primes qโˆˆ [261239791, 1.236597โ€‰ร—โ€‰10^13^] such that $(-3)^{q-1\over 14} = 1$ in GF(q). ยฉ 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 10: 126โ€“138, 2002; DOI 10.1002/jcd.998


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