Orthogonal packings in PG(5,2) (Q1084398)

A spread in PG(d,q) is a set of lines which partitions the point set. A packing in PG(d,q) is a partition of the line set into spreads. Two packings of PG(d,q) are orthogonal if any two spreads, one from each packing, have at most one line in common. The authors enumerate all packings in PG(5,2) of a special type, i.e. those having both an automorphism of order 31 and the Frobenius automorphism. There are 286 nonequivalent packings of this type. From among these, all sets of t mutually orthogonal packings are found for \(t\leq 6\). These yield t- dimensional strong Kirkman cubes of order 63 for \(t=3,4,5,6\). As a consequence of this, strong Kirkman cubes \(SKC_ 3(v)\) are shown to exist for all sufficiently large orders \(v\equiv 3\) (mod 12).