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Some New Bush-Type Hadamard Matrices of Order 100 and Infinite Classes of Symmetric Designs

Dean Crnkovic1, Dieter Held2
1Department of Mathematics Faculty of Philosophy Omladinska 14, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
2Fachbereich Mathematik Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat 55099 Mainz, Germany

Abstract

There are at least 52432 symmetric \( (100, 45, 20) \) designs on which \( \text{Frob}_{10} \times \mathbb{Z}_2 \) acts as an automorphism group. All these designs correspond to Bush-type Hadamard matrices of order 100, and each leads to an infinite class of twin designs with parameters

\[
v= 100(81^m + 81^{m-1} + \ldots + 81+1),\, k=45(81)^m ,\, \lambda=20(81)^m ,
\]

and an infinite class of Siamese twin designs with parameters

\[
v= 100(121^m + 121^{m-1} + \ldots + 121+1),\, k=55(121)^m ,\, \lambda=30(121)^m ,
\]

where \( m \) is an arbitrary positive integer. One of the constructed designs is isomorphic to that used by Z. Janko, H. Kharaghani, and V. D. Tonchev [4].