Steiner triple systems with a doubly transitive automorphism group

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(85)90069-XMaRDI QIDQ1066906zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marshall jun. Hall

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(85)90069-X

zbMATH Keywords

affine spaceautomorphism groupprojective spaceSteiner triple system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triple systems (05B07) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Steiner systems in finite geometry (51E10) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

This paper proves that a Steiner triple system with a doubly transitive automorphism group is either an affine space over GF(3) or a projective space over GF(2). This settles the author's conjecture made in 1960 in the affirmative. The proof is in two cases, the first case is due to J. T. Hall in his M.Sc Thesis, and the second case depends on the classification of the finite simple groups. The exposition is clear and the reader with some background in group theory will appreciate its beauty.

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