On a property of symmetric designs of order n 2(mod\,4)

DOI10.1007/BF01224230MaRDI QIDQ1823947zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marco Buratti

Publication date 1989

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01224230

zbMATH Keywords

block designsBruck-Ryser-Chowla theoremsymmetric designs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Other designs, configurations (05B30) General block designs in finite geometry (51E05)

Review text

In this paper the author gives a new proof of the following theorem. If S is a symmetric (v,k,\(\lambda)\) design of order \(n\equiv 2\) (mod 4), then \(v\equiv \pm 1\) (mod 8). This theorem was first proved by U. Ott as a consequence of general results concerning unimodular lattices associated with such a design. This new proof uses only the Bruck-Ryser-Chowla theorem and the identity \(v\lambda =k^ 2-n\).

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