Abelian Difference Sets Without Self-conjugacy

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 223-230

  Arasu, K T ^a   Ma, S L ^a,b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Difference set; Self conjugacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001172765     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008323907194     Document Type: Article

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