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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)
 

Relative ( pn , p , pn , n )-difference sets with  GCD ( p , n )=1

Tao Feng
Peking University School of Mathematical Sciences Beijing 100871 People's Republic of China

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-008-0124-5

Abstract

Let p be an odd prime. We first get some non-existence and structural results on ( pn, p, pn, n) relative difference sets with gcd( p, n)=1 through a group ring approach. We then give a construction of ( p( p+1), p, p( p+1), p+1) relative difference sets with p a Mersenne prime.

Pages: 91–106

Keywords: keywords relative difference set; group ring; semi-regular relative difference set

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