scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1145912

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A Steiner triple system is a \(2-(v, 3, 1)\) design. Let \(AG_{d,1}(F_3)\) denote the Steiner triple system formed of points and lines of the affine geometry \(AG_d(F_3)\) of dimension \(d\) over the field \(F_3\) of order 3. For any Steiner triple system \(D\), the ternary code \(C_3(D)\) is the subspace of the space of all functions from the point set of \(D\) to \(F_3\) that is spanned by the incidence vectors of the blocks of \(D\). According to \textit{J. Doyen, X. Hubaut}, and \textit{M. Vandensavel} [Math. Z. 163, 251-259 (1978; Zbl 0383.05007)], if \(D\) is a Steiner triple system on \(v\) points then \(\dim C_3(D)\geq v- \log _3(v) -1\) with equality if and only if \(D= AG_{d,1}(F_3)\), where \(v= 3^d\). In this paper, the Steiner systems \(D\) on \(3^d\) points with \(\dim C_3(D)= 3^d -d\) are examined. It is shown how they can be constructed, what their ternary codes consists of, and how they can always be extended to 3-designs using codewords of weight-4 vectors of the ternary code.











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