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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Commutativity of association schemes of prime square order having non-trivial thin closed subsets

Akihide Hanaki1 , Mitsugu Hirasaka2 and Katsuhiro Uno3
1Shinshu University Faculty of Science Matsumoto 390-8621 Japan
2Pusan National University Kumjung Department of Mathematics, College of Science Pusan 609-735 Republic of Korea
3Osaka Kyoiku University Department of Mathematical Sciences Kashiwara Osaka 582-8582 Japan

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-007-0090-3

Abstract

Through a study of the structure of the modular adjacency algebra over a field of positive characteristic p for a scheme of prime order  p and utilizing the fact that every scheme of prime order is commutative, we show that every association scheme of prime square order having a non-trivial thin closed subset is commutative.

Pages: 307–316

Keywords: keywords association scheme; closed subset; character

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3. Dobson, E., Witte, D.: Transitive permutation groups of prime-squared degree. J. Algebr. Comb. 16(1), 43-69 (2002)
4. Hanaki, A.: Locality of a modular adjacency algebra of an association scheme of prime power order.




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