3-pyramidal Steiner triple systems

DOI10.26493/1855-3974.998.38FMaRDI QIDQ4597485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marco Buratti, Gloria Rinaldi, Tommaso Traetta

Publication date 13 December 2017

Published in Ars Mathematica Contemporanea (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09645

zbMATH Keywords

Skolem sequenceSteiner triple systemLangford sequencedifference family

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Steiner systems in finite geometry (51E10) Triple systems (05B07)

Abstract: A design is said to be $f$-pyramidal when it has an automorphism group which fixes $f$ points and acts sharply transitively on all the others. The problem of establishing the set of values of $v$ for which there exists an $f$-pyramidal Steiner triple system of order $v$ has been deeply investigated in the case $f=1$ but it remains open for a special class of values of $v$. The same problem for the next possible $f$, which is $f=3$, is here completely solved: there exists a $3$-pyramidal Steiner triple system of order $v$ if and only if $vequiv7,9,15$ (mod $24$) or $vequiv3,19$ (mod 48).

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