Tait's perfect-difference-set extension conjecture

Let pp be a sufficiently large prime, and let G=Cp2+p+1G=C_{p^2+p+1}. Suppose SGS\subset G is a Sidon set of size pp. A perfect difference set of size p+1p+1 is a subset SGS'\subset G of size p+1p+1 whose nonzero differences represent every nonzero element of GG exactly once.

Tait's perfect-difference-set extension conjecture. The set SS is contained in some perfect difference set SS' of size p+1p+1.

This is presented as an additional open problem, attributed to Michael Tait by personal communication. It asks whether every sufficiently large near-perfect Sidon set in the indicated cyclic group extends to a perfect difference set.

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Sean Eberhard and Freddie Manners, “The apparent structure of dense Sidon sets”, arXiv:2107.05744 (2023).

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