Delandtsheer-Doyen parameters for block-transitive point-imprimitive 2-designs

DOI10.1007/S10623-022-01015-5MaRDI QIDQ2168081zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Carmen Amarra, Alice Devillers, Cheryl E. Praeger

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00282

zbMATH Keywords

2-designsblock-transitive designsBunyakovsky conjectureDelandtsheer-Doyen parameterspoint-imprimitive designsrank of permutation groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Primes represented by polynomials; other multiplicative structures of polynomial values (11N32) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) General block designs in finite geometry (51E05)

Abstract: Delandtsheer and Doyen bounded, in terms of the block size, the number of points of a point-imprimitive, block-transitive 2-design. To do this they introduced two integer parameters, m and n, now called Delandtsheer--Doyen parameters, linking the block size with the parameters of an associated imprimitivity system on points. We show that the Delandtsheer--Doyen parameters provide upper bounds on the permutation ranks of the groups induced on the imprimitivity system and on a class of the system. We explore extreme cases where these bounds are attained, give a new construction for a family of designs achieving these bounds, and pose several open questions concerning the Delandtsheer--Doyen parameters.

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