Liftings with n=2 beyond even-dimensional Singer complements

Prove or disprove the conjecture that only difference sets with parameters of complements of Singer difference sets with even dimension admit liftings to relative difference sets with n=2.

Background

The paper cites work of Arasu, Jungnickel, Ma, and Pott showing that several families of difference sets—including Paley, twin-prime-power, and classical Singer-parameter difference sets—cannot have liftings with n=2. Against this background, the cited authors proposed a classification conjecture for all difference sets admitting such liftings.

The conjecture restricts possible n=2 liftings to complements of Singer difference sets in even dimension, making it a nonexistence-and-classification problem for cyclic relative difference sets.

References

They conjecture that only difference sets with parameters of the complements of Singer difference sets with even dimension have liftings to relative difference sets with $n=2$.

Cyclic relative difference sets and circulant weighing matrices  (2501.14924 - Gordon, 24 Jan 2025) in Section 1, Introduction