New Families of Complex Hadamard Matrices

Abstract

The main result of this paper is a construction for complex Hadamard matrices: for [Formula: see text] any prime power and [Formula: see text] the size of a real Hadamard matrix, this construction yields a family of complex Hadamard matrices of order [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] parameters, including Butson-type matrices of even type [Formula: see text] a divisor of [Formula: see text]. Only a few lowdimensional examples and the real Hadamard matrices obtained by this construction are already known. Also a small extension of Diţa’s construction (cf. Lemma 1) is given.