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A158865 Smallest maximal excess attained by an equivalence class of Hadamard matrices of order 4n. 0
0, 8, 20, 36, 56, 80, 108, 140 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
The excess of a {-1,1} matrix is the sum of its elements. The maximal excess of an equivalence class of Hadamard matrices (cf. A007299) is the largest excess attained by a member of the class. The largest maximal excess of any equivalence class is given by A004118.
REFERENCES
Best, M. R. The excess of a Hadamard matrix. Nederl. Akad. Wetensch. Proc. Ser. A {80}=Indag. Math. 39 (1977), no. 5, 357-361.
Brown, Thomas A. and Spencer, Joel H., Minimization of +-1 matrices under line shifts. Colloq. Math. 23 (1971), 165-171, 177 (errata).
R. Craigen and H. Kharaghani, Weaving Hadamard matrices with maximum excess and classes with small excess. J. Combinatorial Designs 12 (2004), 233-255.
LINKS
FORMULA
For bounds on a(n), see A004118.
EXAMPLE
All equivalence classes in orders 20 and 28 attain the same maximal excess. In order 16, three classes attain maximal excess 64 and two attain maximal excess 56. In order 24, 56 equivalence classes attain maximal excess 112 and four attain maximal excess 108.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A267435 A348093 A186293 * A139570 A265207 A004118
KEYWORD
hard,more,nonn
AUTHOR
William P. Orrick, Mar 28 2009
STATUS
approved

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