Quasi-symmetric 3-designs with triangle-free graph (Q757376)

A t-(v,k,\(\lambda\))-design is collection of k-subsets (called blocks) of a v-set (the elements of which are called points) such that any t-tuple of points occurs in exactly \(\lambda\) blocks. A t-design with two block intersection numbers is said to be quasi-symmetric. The author establishes the following result: Let D be a quasi-symmetric 3-design with intersection numbers x,y \((0\leq x<y<k)\), then the following are equivalent: (i) there are no three distinct blocks of D such that any two of them intersect in x points; (ii) D is a Hadamard 3-design or D has a parameter set (v,k,\(\lambda\)) where \(v=(\lambda +2)(\lambda^ 2+4\lambda +2)+1\), \(k=\lambda^ 2+3\lambda +2\) and \(\lambda =1,2,..\). or D is a complement of one of these designs.