Higher-dimensional grid-imprimitive block-transitive designs

DOI10.1007/S10623-025-01700-1MaRDI QIDQ6892141zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Seyed Hassan Alavi, Carmen Amarra, Ashraf Daneshkhah, Alice Devillers, Cheryl E. Praeger

Publication date 1 December 2025

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10623-025-01700-1

zbMATH Keywords

2-designblock-transitiveCartesian decompositiondirect products of groupsgridproduct action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25)

Review text

In this paper, the authors consider a special case of block-transitive \(2-(v, k, \lambda)\) designs where there is a block-transitive group that preserves a multidimensional grid structure on points. They provide necessary and sufficient conditions for such 2-designs to exist in terms of the parameters of the grid, and certain `array parameters' which describe a subset of points (which will be a block of the design). Using this criterion, the authors construct explicit examples of 2-designs for grids of dimensions 3 and 4, and they pose several open questions.

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