Additivity of symmetric and subspace 2-designs

M Buratti, A Nakić - Designs, codes and cryptography, 2024 - Springer
Abstract A 2-(v, k, λ) design is additive (or strongly additive) if it is possible to embed it in a
suitable abelian group G in such a way that its block set is contained in (or coincides with) …

Constructing generalized Heffter arrays via near alternating sign matrices

L Mella, T Traetta - Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 2024 - Elsevier
Let S be a subset of a group G (not necessarily abelian) such that S∩− S is empty or
contains only elements of order 2, and let h=(h 1,…, hm)∈ N m and k=(k 1,…, kn)∈ N n. A …

Weak Freiman isomorphisms and sequencings of small sets

S Costa, S Della Fiore - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15785, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we introduce a weakening of the Freiman isomorphisms between subsets of
non necessarily abelian groups. Inspired by the breakthrough result of Kravitz,[14], on cyclic …

Heffter spaces

M Buratti, A Pasotti - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.03940, 2024 - arxiv.org
The notion of a Heffter array, which received much attention in the last decade, is equivalent
to a pair of orthogonal Heffter systems. In this paper we study the existence problem of a set …

More Heffter Spaces via finite fields

M Buratti, A Pasotti - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.12412, 2024 - arxiv.org
A $(v, k; r) $ Heffter space is a resolvable $(v_r, b_k) $ configuration whose points form a
half-set of an abelian group $ G $ and whose blocks are all zero-sum in $ G $. It was …

Sequencings in semidirect products via the polynomial method

S Costa, S Della Fiore, MA Ollis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09367, 2023 - arxiv.org
The partial sums of a sequence ${\mathbf x}= x_1, x_2,\ldots, x_k $ of distinct non-identity
elements of a group $(G,\cdot) $ are $ s_0= id_G $ and $ s_j=\prod_ {i= 1}^ j x_i $ for $0< …

Tight globally simple nonzero sum Heffter arrays and biembeddings

L Mella, A Pasotti - Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Square relative nonzero sum Heffter arrays, denoted by NH t (n; k) NH_t(n;k), have been
introduced as a variant of the classical concept of Heffter array. An NH t (n; k) NH_t(n;k) is an …

Tight Heffter arrays from finite fields

M Buratti - International Conference on New Advances in Designs …, 2022 - Springer
Heffter arrays are interesting combinatorial designs introduced by Archdeacon [1] in 2015.
For a rich survey on the many variations and the related results, we refer to [11]. In this note …

Alternating parity weak sequencing

S Costa, S Della Fiore - Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A subset SS of a group (G,+) (G,+) is tt‐weakly sequenceable if there is an ordering
(y 1,…, yk) (y_1,...,y_k) of its elements such that the partial sums s 0, s 1,…, sk …

Existence of -Fold Non-zero sum Heffter arrays through local considerations

S Costa, S Della Fiore - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02309, 2022 - arxiv.org
In [12] was introduced, for cyclic groups, the class of partially filled arrays of the non-zero
sum Heffter array that are, as the Heffter arrays, related to difference families, graph …