Steiner triple systems with doubly transitive automorphism groups: A corollary to the classification theorem for finite simple groups (Q794653)

The authors supply a proof, based on the Classification Theorem for finite simple groups, that a Steiner triple system whose automorphism is doubly transitive on points is a projective geometry over GF(2) or an affine geometry over GF(3). This was a conjecture of \textit{M. Hall jun.} [Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 6, 47-66 (1962; Zbl 0114.012)]. \(\{\) A more general result, the classification of all finite Jordan groups (that is, primitive permutation groups that have transitive subgroups of smaller degree) has been proved in a similar way by \textit{W. M. Kantor} [''Homogeneous designs and geometric lattices'' to be published in J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A] and also by the reviewer [''Some primitive permutation groups'', to be published in Proc. Lond. Math. Soc.].\(\}\)