Flag-transitive block designs and unitary groups

DOI10.1007/S00605-020-01421-8MaRDI QIDQ2006786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Bayat, Ashraf Daneshkhah, Seyed Hassan Alavi

Publication date 12 October 2020

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08546

zbMATH Keywords

2-designalmost simple groupautomorphism groupflag-transitive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05)

Abstract: In this article, we study $2$-designs with $gcd(r,lambda)=1$ admitting a flag-transitive automorphism group. The automorphism groups of these designs are point-primitive of almost simple or affine type. We determine all pairs $(mathcalD,G)$, where $mathcalD$ is a $2$-design with $gcd(r,lambda)=1$ and $G$ is a flag-transitive almost simple automorphism group of $mathcalD$ whose socle is $X=mathrmPSU(n,q)$ with $(n,q)eq(3,2)$ and prove that such a design belongs to one of the two infinite families of Hermitian unitals and Witt-Bose-Shrikhande spaces, or it is isomorphic to a design with parameters $(6,3,2)$, $(7,3,1)$, $(8,4,3)$, $(10,6,5)$, $(11,5,2)$ or $(28,7,2)$.

Review text

In this paper, the authors study \(2\)-\((v, k, \lambda)\) designs with \(\gcd(r, \lambda) = 1\) admitting a flag-transitive automorphism group. They determine all such pairs \((D, G)\) where \(D\) is 2-design and \(G\) is flag-transitive almost simple automorphism group. Their main result is that such a design belongs to one of the two infinite families of Hermitian unitals and Witt-Bose-Shrikhande spaces, or it is isomorphic to a design with some given parameters. In addition, they prove the following particular case: if \(D\) is symmetric then it is either the Fano plane (7, 3, 1) or the unique Hadamard design with parameters (11, 5, 2).

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