Non-existence of primitive formally dual subsets of size 8 in the group Z82\mathbb{Z}_8^2

Let G=Z82G=\mathbb{Z}_8^2 and let a subset SGS\subset G be primitive if it is not contained in a proper coset of a subgroup of GG and generates GG. A subset is formally dual if there is a pairing for which its character-sum identities satisfy the formal duality condition. Non-existence conjecture. There is no primitive formally dual subset SZ82S\subset\mathbb{Z}_8^2 with

S=8.|S|=8.

The graph search algorithm terminated without finding such a subset, but the authors present the computational non-existence result as a conjecture because they do not provide a readily checkable certificate; a more sophisticated proof remains to be found.

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Robert Schüler, “Results on formally dual sets in finite abelian groups of size 64 obtained from a graph search algorithm”, arXiv:2303.15059 (2023).

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