The classification of doubly transitive affine designs (Q1182418)

An affine design is a block design with an equivalent relation (called parallelism) on the blocks such that every parallel class of blocks partitions the point set and any two nonparallel blocks intersect in the same positive number of points the point set and any two nonparallel blocks intersect in the same positive number of points. In the paper under review the author shows that if a nontrivial affine 2-design admits an automorphism group which is doubly transitive on its points, then it must be one of the following: i) an affine space \(AG_{n-1}(n,q)\) with \(n\geq 2\), ii) the Hadamard 3-design on 12 points, iii) the nondesarguesian affine plane over the nearfield of order 9, iv) Hering's nondesarguesian affine plane of order 27, or v) one of the two affine block designs \(S_{10}(2,81;729)\) discovered by the author (neither of which is isomorphic to \(AG_ 2(3,9))\). This is an extension of Kantor's work classifying the doubly transitive designs with \(\lambda=1\) [\textit{W. M. Kantor}, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 38, 66-74 (1985; Zbl 0559.05015)] and classifying the doubly transitive symmetric designs [\textit{W. M. Kantor}, Graphs Comb. 1, 165-166 (1985; Zbl 0594.05009)].