On the existence of block-transitive combinatorial designs

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Authors Michael Huber

Publication date 27 July 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.1879, https://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/1047/0.html

zbMATH Keywords

3-homogeneous permutation groupblock-transitive group of automorphismscombinatorial design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05)

Abstract: Block-transitive Steiner $t$-designs form a central part of the study of highly symmetric combinatorial configurations at the interface of several disciplines, including group theory, geometry, combinatorics, coding and information theory, and cryptography. The main result of the paper settles an important open question: There exist no non-trivial examples with $t=7$ (or larger). The proof is based on the classification of the finite 3-homogeneous permutation groups, itself relying on the finite simple group classification.

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