Quasi-symmetric designs on 56 points (Q825929)

A design is called quasi-symmetric if it is of degree 2, i.e. if any pair of blocks intersects in $x$ or in $y$ points, for some integers $x < y$. In this paper, the authors focused on the computational techniques for the construction of quasi-symmetric block designs, and applied these techniques to the case with 56 points, then they obtained a new quasi-symmetric (56,16,18) and at least 1410 new quasi-symmetric (56,16,6) designs. At the same time, the non-existence of (56,12,9) and (56,20,19) designs with certain automorphism groups had been proved. Besides these, they found out that there are at least 3141 symmetric (78,22,6) designs.