Title
A sensitive algorithm for detecting the inequivalence of Hadamard matrices
Abstract
A Hadamard matrix of side n is an n x n matrix with every entry either 1 or -1, which satisfies HHT = nI. Two Hadamard matrices are called equivalent if one can be obtained from the other by some sequence of row and column permutations and negations. To identify the equivalence of two Hadamard matrices by a complete search is known to be an NP hard problem when n increases. In this paper, a new algorithm for detecting inequivalence of two Hadamard matrices is proposed, which is more sensitive than those known in the literature and which has a close relation with several measures of uniformity. As an application, we apply the new algorithm to verify the inequivalence of the known 60 inequivalent Hadamard matrices of order 24; furthermore, we show that there are at least 382 pairwise inequivalent Hadamard matrices of order 36. The latter is a new discovery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1090/S0025-5718-03-01539-4
MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
algorithm,equivalence,Hadamard matrix,Hamming distance,uniformity
Hadamard's maximal determinant problem,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Hadamard matrix,Paley construction,Hadamard product,Algorithm,Hadamard's inequality,Complex Hadamard matrix,Hadamard code,Hadamard transform,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
246
0025-5718
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.96
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai-Tai Fang116523.65
Gennian Ge290495.51