The cyclicity conjecture for Abelian planar difference sets

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Let AnA_n be the root lattice, let dd be its metric, and let L\mathcal L be a 11-perfect code in (An,d)(A_n,d). For (i,j){0,1,,n}2(i,j)\in\{0,1,\ldots,n\}^2, let fi,j\mathbf f_{i,j} denote the corresponding direction, and define the period of L\mathcal L along that direction as the least positive translation length preserving L\mathcal L.

Cyclicity conjecture for Abelian planar difference sets. The period of L\mathcal L in AnA_n along fi,j\mathbf f_{i,j} is equal to n2+n+1n^2+n+1 for at least one vector fi,j\mathbf f_{i,j}, with (i,j){0,1,,n}2(i,j)\in\{0,1,\ldots,n\}^2.

This is the code-theoretic form of the conjecture that every Abelian planar difference set lies in a cyclic group. It is presented as an important unsolved conjecture; the equivalence uses the isomorphism between the ambient quotient An/LA_n/\mathcal L and the group containing the difference set.

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Mladen Kovačević, “Sidon Sets, Difference Sets, and Codes in A_n Lattices”, arXiv:1409.5276 (2019).

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