Conjecture on reversible Hadamard difference sets in C2n×C2nC_{2^n}\times C_{2^n}

Let Gn=C2n×C2nG_n=C_{2^n}\times C_{2^n}. A reversible Hadamard difference set is a reversible difference set with Hadamard parameters. The results concern the total number of such difference sets of types A and B.

Reversible Hadamard difference set enumeration conjecture. The total number of reversible Hadamard difference sets in GnG_n of type A is

(22n2)(2n+1),(2^{2^n-2})(2^n+1),

and the total number of those of type B is

(22n2)(2n1).(2^{2^n-2})(2^n-1).

Hence the total number of reversible Hadamard difference sets in GnG_n is

22n+n1.2^{2^n+n-1}.

This conjecture was prompted by a question of James A. Davis and John B. Polhill about the total number of reversible Hadamard difference sets. The paper reports complete enumeration of regular nontrivial canonical partial difference sets of even size for n9n\leq 9, but the computational results for n=10,11n=10,11 are likely incomplete; the stated formulas are suggested by those enumeration results.

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Martin E. Malandro and Ken W. Smith, “Partial Difference Sets in C_2^n C_2^n”, arXiv:1811.11223 (2018).

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