Geometric construction of some families of two-class and three-class association schemes and codes from nondegenerate and degenerate Hermitian varieties (Q686449)

This paper is a rich source of results and methods concerning association schemes and codes. From author's abstract: ``Taking a nondegenerate Hermitian variety as a projective set in a projective plane \(\text{PG} (2,s^ 2)\), \textit{D. M. Mesner} [Ann. Math. Statist. 38, 571-581 (1967; Zbl 0155.269)] derived a two-class association scheme on the points of the affine space of dimension 3, for which the projective plane is the plane at infinity. We generalize his construction in two ways. We show how his construction works both for nondegenerate and degenerate Hermitian varieties in any dimension''.