On the Smith normal form of a skew-symmetric D-optimal design of order $n\equiv 2\pmod{4}$

Abstract

We show that the Smith normal form of a skew-symmetric D-optimal design of order $n\equiv 2\pmod{4}$ is determined by its order. Furthermore, we show that the Smith normal form of such a design can be written explicitly in terms of the order $n$, thereby proving a recent conjecture of Armario. We apply our result to show that certain D-optimal designs of order $n\equiv 2\pmod{4}$ are not equivalent to any skew-symmetric D-optimal design. We also provide a correction to a result in the literature on the Smith normal form of D-optimal designs.