A feasibility approach for constructing combinatorial designs of circulant type

In this work, we propose an optimization approach for constructing various classes of circulant combinatorial designs that can be defined in terms of autocorrelations. The problem is formulated as a so-called feasibility problem having three sets, to which the Douglas-Rachford projection algorithm is applied. The approach is illustrated on three different classes of circulant combinatorial designs: circulant weighing matrices, D-optimal matrices, and Hadamard matrices with two circulant cores. Furthermore, we explicitly construct two new circulant weighing matrices, a $CW(126,64)$ and a $CW(198,100)$, whose existence was previously marked as unresolved in the most recent version of Strassler's table

On the Existance of Certain Circulant Weighing Matrices

We prove nonexistence of circulant weighing matrices with parameters from ten previously open entries of the updated Strassler\u27s table. The method of proof utilizes some modular constraints on circulant weighing matrices with multipliers

On circulant and two-circulant weighing matrices

We employ theoretical and computational techniques to construct new weighing matrices constructed from two circulants. In particular, we construct W(148, 144), W(152, 144), W(156, 144) which are listed as open in the second edition of the Handbook of Combinatorial Designs. We also fill a missing entry in Strassler’s table with answer “YES”, by constructing a circulant weighing matrix of order 142 with weight 100

When the necessary conditions are not sufficient: sequences with zero autocorrelation function

Recently K. T. Arasu (personal communication) and Yoseph Strassler, in his PhD thesis, The Classification of Circulant Weighing Matrices of Weight 9, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 1997, have intensively studied circulant weighing matrices, or single sequences, with weight 9. They show many cases are non-existent. Here we give details of a search for two sequences with zero periodic autocorrelation and types (1,9), (1,16) and (4,9). We find some new cases but also many cases where the known necessary conditions are not sufficient. We instance a number of occasions when the known necessary conditions are not sufficient for the existence of weighing matrices and orthogonal de-signs constructed using sequences with zero autocorrelation function leading to intriguing new questions

Circulant weighing matrices

Circulant weighing matrices are matrices with entries in {-1,0,1} where the rows are pairwise orthogonal and each successive row is obtained from the previous row by a fixed cyclic permutation. They are useful in solving problems where it is necessary to determine as accurately as possible, the "weight" of n "objects" in n "weighings". They have also been successfully used to improve the performance of certain optical instruments such as spectrometers and image scanners. In this thesis I discuss the basic properties of circulant weighing matrices, prove most of the known existence results known to me at the time of writing this thesis and classify the circulant weighing matrices with precisely four nonzero entries in each row. The problem of classifying all circulant weighing matrices is related to the "cyclic projective plane problem". This relationship is established and I have devoted the final chapter of this thesis to cyclic projective planes and their relationship to circulant weighing matrices. The final theorem in this thesis yields information about equations of the kind xy¯²=a in cyclic projective planes

New Nonexistence Results on Circulant Weighing Matrices

A circulant weighing matrix $W = (w_{i,j})$ is a square matrix of order $n$ and entries $w_{i,j}$ in $\{0, \pm 1\}$ such that $WW^T=kI_n$. In his thesis, Strassler gave a table of existence results for such matrices with $n \leq 200$ and $k \leq 100$. In the latest version of Strassler's table given by Tan \cite{arXiv:1610.01914} there are 34 open cases remaining. In this paper we give nonexistence proofs for 12 of these cases, report on preliminary searches outside Strassler's table, and characterize the known proper circulant weighing matrices.Comment: 15 page

Some non-existence and asymptotic existence results for weighing matrices

Orthogonal designs and weighing matrices have many applications in areas such as coding theory, cryptography, wireless networking and communication. In this paper, we first show that if positive integer $k$ cannot be written as the sum of three integer squares, then there does not exist any skew-symmetric weighing matrix of order $4n$ and weight $k$, where $n$ is an odd positive integer. Then we show that for any square $k$, there is an integer $N(k)$ such that for each $n\ge N(k)$, there is a symmetric weighing matrix of order $n$ and weight $k$. Moreover, we improve some of the asymptotic existence results for weighing matrices obtained by Eades, Geramita and Seberry.Comment: To appear in International Journal of Combinatorics (Hindawi). in Int. J. Combin. (Feb 2016