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Z. Arad , Y. Erez and M. Muzychuk

Generalized table algebras were introduced in Arad, Fisman and Muzychuk ( Israel J. Math. 114 (1999), 29-60) as an axiomatic closure of some algebraic properties of the Bose-Mesner algebras of association schemes. In this note we show that if all non-trivial degrees of a generalized integral table algebra are even, then the number of real basic elements of the algebra is bounded from below (Theorem 2.2). As a consequence we obtain some interesting facts about association schemes the non-trivial valencies of which are even. For example, we proved that if all non-identical relations of an association scheme have the same valency which is even, then the scheme is symmetric.

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