• DocumentCode
    3283698
  • Title

    On some properties of Costas arrays generated via finite fields

  • Author

    Drakakis, Konstantinos ; Gow, Rod ; O´Carroll, Liam

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Math., Edinburgh Univ.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    22-24 March 2006
  • Firstpage
    801
  • Lastpage
    805
  • Abstract
    We prove that Welch-constructed Costas arrays are in general not symmetric and that the Golomb-constructed ones are symmetric in two cases only, namely the Lem-pel one and a (rare) second one leading to the construction of dense Golomb rulers. Finally, we look into the (hard) problem of the number of fixed points of a Welch-constructed Costas array and formulate a conjecture.
  • Keywords
    array signal processing; Welch-constructed Costas array; dense Golomb ruler; finite field; Algebra; Combinatorial mathematics; Educational institutions; Galois fields; Radar; Sonar; Costas arrays; Golomb and Welch constructions; Golomb rulers; finite fields;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Sciences and Systems, 2006 40th Annual Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Princeton, NJ
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0349-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0350-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISS.2006.286576
  • Filename
    4067917