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A family of supplementary difference sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Emma Lehmer
Affiliation:
Berkeley, California, USA.
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Abstract

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This note exhibits a family of m – (ν, k, λ) supplementary difference sets with parameters ν = 2mf + 1, where ν = p is a prime and f is odd, k = mf and λ = m(mf−1)/2. These sets are composed of a union of cosets of 2m-th power residues of p.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1974

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