On Generalizing the Method of Scarpis to Complex Hadamard Matrices

Abstract

A complex Hadamard matrix is a matrix \(H_n \in {\{\omega^i | 1\leq i \leq m \}}^{n\times n}\) of order \(n\), where \(\omega\) is a primitive \(m^{th}\) root of unity, that satisfies \(H_n{H}^{*}_n=n{I_{n}}\), where \(H_n^{*}\) denotes the complex conjugate transpose of \(H_n\). We show that the Scarpis technique for constructing classic Hadamard matrices generalizes to Butson-type complex Hadamard matrices.