Golomb–Taylor conjecture on singly periodic Costas sequences

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Let a Costas sequence be a sequence whose difference triangle has no repeated entry in any row. A sequence is singly periodical when every circular shift of its terms is also a Costas sequence. A Welch sequence is one obtained from the Welch construction: for a prime pp, a primitive element α∈Fp\alpha\in\mathbb{F}_p, and c∈Zc\in\mathbb{Z}, the sequence αc,α1+c,…,αp−2+c\alpha^{c},\alpha^{1+c},\dots,\alpha^{p-2+c}. Golomb–Taylor's conjecture. A Costas sequence is singly periodical if and only if it is Welch. Only Welch sequences are currently known to be singly periodical, so the conjecture remains open.

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Ivelisse Rubio and Jaziel Torres, “Circular Costas maps: a multidimensional analog of circular Costas sequences”, arXiv:2210.16661 (2022).

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