Hadamard Conjecture — Main Results and Conjecture Stub #
Confirmed infinite family: powers of two admit Hadamard matrices.
Necessity (Hadamard 1893): the order of any Hadamard matrix is 1,
2, or a multiple of 4. Together with the conjecture stub below this
explains why the conjecture quantifies over multiples of 4.
Paley's infinite family (Paley 1933): for every prime power
q = p ^ k ≡ 3 (mod 4) there is a Hadamard matrix of order q + 1.
Combined with hadamard_family_pow_two and Sylvester doubling this covers
all admissible orders up to 36, the first order needing Paley's second
construction.
Checkpoint: every admissible order up to 32 admits a Hadamard
matrix, by combining Sylvester powers of two, doubling, and Paley I.
The first admissible order beyond the reach of the currently formalized
families is 36, which requires Paley's second construction.
The project's primary conjecture is equivalent to the classical 1/2/4k form.
Hadamard conjecture: every n divisible by 4 admits an n × n
Hadamard matrix (formalized over n : ℕ).