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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)
 

A modular absolute bound condition for primitive association schemes

Akihide Hanaki1 and Ilia Ponomarenko2
1Shinshu University Faculty of Science Matsumoto 390-8621 Japan
2Petersburg Department of V.A.Steklov Institute of Mathematics St. Petersburg 191023 Russia

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-008-0145-0

Abstract

The well-known absolute bound condition for a primitive symmetric association scheme ( X, S) gives an upper bound for | X| in terms of | S| and the minimal non-principal multiplicity of the scheme. In this paper we prove another upper bounds for | X| for an arbitrary primitive scheme ( X, S). They do not depend on | S| but depend on some invariants of its adjacency algebra KS where K is an algebraic number field or a finite field.

Pages: 447–456

Keywords: keywords association scheme; adjacency algebra

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