Mutually unbiased bases and finite projective planes

It is conjectured that the question of the existence of a set of d +1 mutu ally unbiased bases in a d-dimensional Hilbert space if d differs from a power of ap rimenumber is intimately linked with the problem of whether there exist projective planes whose order d is not a power of a prime number.

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