ON THE EXISTENCE OF (196,91,42) HADAMARD DIFFERENCE SETS


Adegoke S. A. Osifodunrin




We use group representations and factorization in the cyclotomic rings to show that $(196, 91, 42)$ Hadamard difference sets exist only in group $(C_7 \times C_7)\rtimes C_4$ with Gap location number $[196, 8]$. We also show that $(980,89,8)$ difference sets may only exist in four groups of order $980$.