New 5-designs

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A \(t\)-design on a point-set \(S\) is a collection \(\mathcal D\) of subsets of \(S\), all of the same cardinality, with the property that every \(t\)-subset of \(S\) is contained in precisely \(\lambda\) elements of \(\mathcal D\); \(\lambda\) is a fixed integer parameter of the design. Via algebraic coding theory, we construct here several new 5-designs on 24 and 48 points as well as the two classic 5-designs on 12 and 24 points associated with the Mathieu groups \(M_{12}\) and \(M_{24}\). We, in fact, construct an infinite class of designs together with their automorphism groups, indexed by two primes, \(\ell\) and \(p\); the classic designs and their groups correspond to \(\ell=11\), \(p=3\) and \(\ell=23\), \(p=2\). All the designs are 2-designs, infinitely many are 3-designs and sporadically the designs are 5-designs- In each case the automorphism group contains \(\mathrm{PSL}_2(\ell)\); it is known to be substantially bigger only in the above two cases (where it is \(M_{12}\) and \(M_{24}\)), and for \(\ell=5\), \(p=2\) (where it is \(\mathrm{Alt}(6)\)), and for \(\ell=7\), \(p=2\) (where it is the affine group of dimension 3 over \(\mathrm{GF}(2)\)). We also establish: (1) The existence of another class of infinite 3-designs. (2) the optimality of ``almost all cyclic codes of a given prime block length. (3) The non-vanishing of all sub-determinants of where \((z_{ij}\), \(z\) is a primitive (complex) \(\ell\)-th root of unity, and the non-vanishing of all coefficients of all proper divisions of \(x^\ell -1\) over any field containing the rational numbers. (here again \(\ell\) is a prime.) (4) The existence of some disjoint pairs of 5-designs. Since the appearance of this paper, the main result Theorem 4.2, has been used by \textit{Vera Pless} to construct other 5-designs, e.g., on 36, 48 and 60 points.




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