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We show that difference sets satisfying the condition n|λ have a product property which can be exploited to construct more difference sets. Many of the newly discovered difference sets arise in precisely this way.
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Dedicated to Dan Hughes on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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Arasu, K.T., Chen, Y.Q., Dillon, J.F. et al. Abelian difference sets of order n dividing λ. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 44, 307–319 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-007-9102-5
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