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On the p-Rank of the Adjacency Matrices of Strongly Regular Graphs

A.E. Brouwer and C.A. van Eijl

DOI: 10.1023/A:1022438616684

Abstract

Let \mathbb F p \mathbb{F}_p , the finite field with p elements) of the matrices M = aA + bJ + cI for integral a, b, c. This note is based on van Eijl [8].

Pages: 329–346

Keywords: $p$-rank; strongly regular graphs

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