A Technique for Constructing Symmetric Designs

  • Authors:
  • Yury J. Ionin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859, USA

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Let M be a set of incidence matrices of symmetric(v,k,λ)-designs and G a group of mappings M→ M. We give asufficient condition for the matrix W⊗ M, where M∈ M and W is abalanced generalized weighing matrix over G, to be the incidence matrix of alarger symmetric design. This condition is then applied to the designscorresponding to McFarland and Spence difference sets, and it results infour families of symmetric (v,k,λ )-designs with the followingparameters k and λ (m and d are positive integers, p and q are primepowers): (i) k = q^2m-1p^d, λ =(q-1)q^2m-2p^d-1, q = p^d+1-1/p-1; (ii) k =(q^2m-1p^d-1)p^d/(p-1)(p^d+1),λ =(q^2m-2p^2d-1)p^d/(p-1)(p^d+1),q = p^d+1+p-1; (iii) k = 3^dq^2m-1,λ = 3^d(3^d+1)q^2m-2/2, q =3^d+1+1/2; (iv) k =3^d(3^dq^2m-1-1/2(3^d-1), λ =3^d(3^2dq^2m-2-1)/2(3^d-1), q = 3^d+1-2.