The symmetry-symbol conjecture for normalized non-exceptional PPSs

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Let vv be odd. A normalized propus parameter set (PPS) is a parameter set (v;k1,k2,k3,k4;λ)(v;k_1,k_2,k_3,k_4;\lambda) for which the associated PDF has X2=X3X_2=X_3; it is non-exceptional when the four block sizes kik_i are not all equal. A PDF has symmetry symbols (s∗∗)(s{**}) or (∗∗s)({**}s) when, respectively, its first or fourth block is symmetric and the other indicated blocks have arbitrary symmetry symbols.

Symmetry-symbol conjecture. For each normalized and non-exceptional PPS (v;k1,k2,k3,k4;λ)(v;k_1,k_2,k_3,k_4;\lambda) there exist PDFs with symmetry symbols (s∗∗)(s{**}) and (∗∗s)({**}s).

The conjecture is implicit in earlier work and had been verified there for odd v≤53v\leq 53; the source considers it in the context of constructing symmetric Hadamard matrices and lists it for the subsequent range of odd parameters.

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Dragomir Ž. Đoković, “Some new symmetric Hadamard matrices”, arXiv:2101.05429 (2022).

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