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Jennifer Seberry and Xian-Mo Zhang, Regular sets of matrices and applications, Graphs and Combinatorics, 9, (1993), 185-195.

Abstract

Suppose A1,....,As are (1, -1) matrices of order m satisfying

AiAj=J, i,jє{1,...,s}

AtiAj=AtjAi=J, i≠j, i,jє{1,...,s}

∑(AiAti + ATiAi) = 2smIm

JAi = AiJ = aJ, i є {1,....,s}, a constant

Call A1,.....,As a regular s-set of matrices of order m if Eq. 1-3 are satisfied and a regular s-set of regular matrices if Eq. 4 is also satisfied, these matrices were first discovered by J. Seberry and A.L. Whiteman in "New Hadamard matrices and conference matrices obtained via Mathon's construction". Graphs and Combinatorics. 4(1988), 355-377. In this paper, we prove that

(i) if there exist a regular s-set of order m and a regular t-set of order n there exists a regular s-set of order mn when t = sm

(ii) if there exist a regular s-set of order m and a regular t-set of order n there exists a regular s-set of order mn when 2t = sm (m is odd)

( iii) if there exist a regular s-set of order m and a regular t-set of order n there exists a regular 2s-set of order mn when t = 2sm As applications, we prove that if there exist a regular s-set of order m there exists

(iv) an Hadamard matrices of order 4hm whenever there exists an Hadamard matrix of order 4h and s = 2h

(v) Williamson type matrices of order nm whenever there exists Williamson type matrices of order n and s = 2n

(vi) an OD(4mp;ms1...., msu) whenever an OD(4p;S1,...,su) exists and s = 2p

(vii) a complex Hadamard matrix of order 2cm whenever there exists a complex Hadamard matrix of order 2c and s = 2c This paper extends and improves results of Seberry and Whiteman giving new classes of Hadamard matrices, Williamson type matrices, orthogonal designs and complex Hadamard matrices.

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