Abstract:
We describe a new family of unimodular almost two-valued periodic Golay sequence pairs of length p, where p is an odd prime. The sequences are obtained from the Legendre ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
We describe a new family of unimodular almost two-valued periodic Golay sequence pairs of length p, where p is an odd prime. The sequences are obtained from the Legendre symbol by replacing the letters 0, 1, -1 with the letters 1, A, B\in \Bbb {C} , |A|=|B|=1 , where B additionally satisfies an appropriate constraint. The family is infinite in that each value of A yields at least one Golay pair or an ideal sequence. In special cases the family includes: 1) sequences with A=1 , or B=\pm \bar {A} , or B=\pm i\bar {A} , or where both A and B are Gaussian rationals, or roots of unity; and 2), sequences whose autocorrelation sidelobes approach zero as p approaches infinity. These results extend the results of Björck on two-valued/almost two-valued ideal sequences derived from cyclic p-roots and the results of Golomb on two-valued ideal sequences derived from Hadamard-Paley difference sets. Related, but in some ways more constrained results on two-valued Golay sequence pairs derived from difference set families were recently published by Li et al.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ( Volume: 71, Issue: 1, January 2025)