A digraph D = (V, E), where V is the set of vertices and E is the set of directed edges, is a Doubly Regular Asymmetric Digraph (DRAD) if the following conditions hold.3. D is doubly regular of valency λ (given any two distinct vertices a 1 and a 2 there exist λ vertices b such that (a i , b) ∈ E for i = 1, 2 and there exist λ vertices c such that (c, a i ) ∈ E for i = 1, 2).Let P be a set of v points and let B be a set of v blocks where each block is incident with k points. A symmetric 2-(v, k, λ) design D = (P , B) satisfies the property that any pair of points is incident with exactly λ blocks. The following theorem found in [5] describes how symmetric designs are used to construct DRADs.
We present new abelian partial difference sets and amorphic group schemes of both Latin square type and negative Latin square type in certain abelian p-groups. Our method is to construct what we call pseudo-quadratic bent functions and use them in place of quadratic forms. We also discuss a connection between strongly regular bent functions and amorphic group schemes.
A partial difference set having parameters (n 2 , r (n − 1), n + r 2 − 3r, r 2 − r ) is called a Latin square type partial difference set, while a partial difference set having parameters (n 2 , r (n + 1), −n + r 2 + 3r, r 2 + r ) is called a negative Latin square type partial difference set. Nearly all known constructions of negative Latin square partial difference sets are in elementary abelian groups. In this paper, we develop three product theorems that construct negative Latin square type partial difference sets and Latin square type partial difference sets in direct products of abelian groups G and G when these groups have certain Latin square or negative Latin square type partial difference sets. Using these product theorems, we can construct negative Latin square type partial difference sets in groups of the form G = (Z 2 ) 4s 0 × (Z 4 ) 2s 1 × (Z 16 ) 4s 2 × · · · × (Z 2 2r ) 4s r where the s i are nonnegative integers and s 0 + s 1 ≥ 1. Another significant corollary to these theorems are constructions of two infinite families of negative Latin square type partial difference sets in 3-groups of the form G = (Z 3 ) 2 × (Z 3 ) 2s 1 × (Z 9 ) 2s 2 × · · · × (Z 3 2k ) 2s k for nonnegative integers s i . Several constructions of Latin square type PDSs are also given in p-groups for all primes p. We will then briefly indicate how some of these results relate to amorphic association schemes. In particular, we construct amorphic association schemes with 4 classes using negative Latin square type graphs in many nonelementary abelian 2-groups; we also use negative Latin square type graphs whose underlying sets can be elementary abelian 3-groups or nonelementary abelian 3-groups to form 3-class amorphic association schemes.Keywords Negative Latin square type partial difference set · Latin square type partial difference set · Partial difference set · Amorphic association scheme · Association scheme · Character theory Communicated by Q. Xiang.
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