Embeddable partial Hadamard matrices related to the projective planes

Abstract

The existence of a projective plane of order $p\equiv 3(\mathrm{mod}4)$, where $p$ is a prime power, is shown to be equivalent to the existence of a balancedly multi-splittable embeddable $p^2\times p(p+1)$ partial Hadamard matrix.

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