Cyclotomic integers and finite geometry

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 929-952

  Schmidt, Bernhard ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute value problem; circulant Hadamard matrices; Cyclotomic fields; Finite geometries with Singer groups; group invariant weighing matrices; planar functions; Quasiregular projective planes; Ryser's conjecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033472522     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0894-0347-99-00298-2     Document Type: Article

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