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Amicable orthogonal designs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Peter J. Robinson
Peter J. Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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Abstract

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A powerful tool in the construction of orthogonal designs has been amicable orthogonal designs. Recent results in the construction of Hadamard matrices has led to the need to find amicable orthogonal designs A, B in order n and of types (u1, U2, …, u6) and (ν1, ν2, …, νr) respectively satisfying At = -A, Bt = B, and ABt = BAt with

For simplicity, we say A, B are amicable orthogonal designs of type (u1, u2, …, us; v1, v2, …, vr).

We completely answer the question in order 8 by showing (1, 2, 2, 2; 8), (1, 2, 4; 2, 2, 4), (2, 2, 3; 2, 6), (7, 1, 7) and those designs derived from the above are the only possible.

We use our results to obtain new orthogonal designs in order 32.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1976 , pp. 303 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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