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Adders for the patterned starter in nonabelian groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Kenneth B. Gross
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University Louisiana, 70803, U.S.A.
Philip A. Leonard
Affiliation:
Arizona State University Arizona, 85281, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Starters with adders, in abelian groups of odd order, have been used widely in recent combinatorial constructions, most notably in the study of Room squares. In this paper, constructions of adders for the so-called “patterned starter” are described, for a large class of nonabelian groups of odd order.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1976

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