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Cyclotomic difference sets

  • Speaker: Dr. Xia Binzhou (University of Western Australia)

  • Time: Oct 20, 2017, 11:00-12:00

  • Location: Conference Room 415, Wisdom Valley 3#

The study of cyclotomic difference sets dates back to Paley in 1930s ' and has become well-known for its connection to the long-standing conjecture that every finite flag-transitive projective plane is Desarguesian. In this talk, I will propose a new approach to this classic problem, which gives insights from character sums, p-adic gamma functions and systems of polynomial equations.