Huczynska, S. and Paterson, Maura B. (2017) Existence and non-existence results for strong external difference families. Discrete Mathematics 341 (1), pp. 87-95. ISSN 0012-365X.
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Abstract
We consider strong external difference families (SEDFs); these are external difference families satisfying additional conditions on the patterns of external differences that occur, and were first defined in the context of classifying optimal strong algebraic manipulation detection codes. We establish new necessary conditions for the existence of (n; m; k; lambda)-SEDFs; in particular giving a near-complete treatment of the lambda = 2 case. For the case m = 2, we obtain a structural characterization for partition type SEDFs (of maximum possible k and lambda), showing that these correspond to Paley partial difference sets. We also prove a version of our main result for generalized SEDFs, establishing non-trivial necessary conditions for their existence.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Maura Paterson |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2017 13:38 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2025 05:30 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19306 |
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