Difference sets disjoint from a subgroup II: groups of order $4p^2$

Abstract

We study finite groups $G$ having a normal subgroup $H$ and $D\subset G\setminus H,D\cap D^{-1}=\varnothing ,$ such that the multiset $\{x{y}^{-1}:x,y\in D\}$ has every non-identity element occur the same number of times (such a $D$ is called a {\it DRAD difference set}). We show that there are no such groups of order $4p^2$, where $p$ is an odd prime.

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