On Lander's conjecture for difference sets whose order is a power of 2 or 3

Abstract

Let p be a prime and let b be a positive integer. If a (v, k, λ, n) difference set D of order n = p b exists in an abelian group with cyclic Sylow p-subgroup S, then p ε {2,3} and |S| = p. Furthermore, either p = 2 and v ≡ λ ≡ 2 (mod 4) or the parameters of D belong to one of four families explicitly determined in our main theorem. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.