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Linear algebra proofs in combinatorics?

Simple linear algebra methods are a surprisingly powerful tool to prove combinatorial results. Some examples of combinatorial theorems with linear algebra proofs are the (weak) perfect graph theorem, ...
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Status of Hadamard matrix conjecture

I would like to know if any progress has been made on Hadamard conjecture : Hadamard matrix of order $4k$ exists for every positive integer $k$.
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Maximum determinant of $\{0,1\}$-valued $n\times n$-matrices

What's the maximum determinant of $\{0,1\}$ matrices in $M(n,\mathbb{R})$? If there's no exact formula what are the nearest upper and lower bounds do you know?
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Construction of skew-Hadamard matrix of order 292

I am currently looking into how to construct a skew-Hadamard matrix of order 292. Where can I find such construction? According to multiple papers (e.g. Koukouvinos and Stylianou - On skew-Hadamard ...
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How to construct a skew Hadamard matrix of order 756?

Where can I find the construction for a skew Hadamard matrix of order 756? According to multiple papers (e.g. Koukouvinos and Stylianou - On skew-Hadamard matrices and Seberry - On skew Hadamard ...
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Is Ryser's conjecture on permanent minimizers still open?

Let $A(k,n)$ be the set of $\{0,1\}$ matrices of order $n$ with all their line sums equal to $k$. Conjecture number 5 on the list from Minc's book, attributed to Ryser, says that if $A(k,n)$ ...
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Ranks of higher incidence matrices of designs

In 1978 Doyen, Hubaut and Vandensavel proved that if $S$ is a Steiner triple system $S(2,3,v)$ then the $GF(2)$ rank of its incidence matrix $N$ is $$ Rk_{2}(N)=v-(d_{p}+1), $$ where $d_{p}$ is the ...
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On the half-skew-centrosymmetric Hadamard matrices

Definition 1: A Hadamard matrix is an $n\times n$ matrix $H$ whose entries are either $1$ or $-1$ and whose rows are mutually orthogonal. Definition 2: A matrix $A$ is half-skew-centrosymmetric if ...
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Linear combinations of special matrices

I am a hobby computer scientist and I have a problem to which I am searching an efficient algorithm. Given an integer n, we want to combine some square input-matrices of size n in a way that is ...
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