3-pyramidal Steiner triple systems

DOI10.26493/1855-3974.998.38FMaRDI QIDQ4597485zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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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