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The historical development of a mathematical subject has often begun with the commutative case and then built on this case to unravel the non-commutative. Although the role of non-abelian groups in algebraic combinatorics and finite geometry goes back at least to Dickson (1901), genuinely non-abelian difference sets have only appeared in the last few years, see Liebler and Smith (1993), Smith (1995).
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Liebler, R.A. (1999). Constructive Representation Theoretic Methods and Non-Abelian Difference Sets. In: Pott, A., Kumar, P.V., Helleseth, T., Jungnickel, D. (eds) Difference Sets, Sequences and their Correlation Properties. NATO Science Series, vol 542. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4459-9_13
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