Block-transitive automorphism groups of Steiner 3-designs

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2023.113534MaRDI QIDQ6172284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yunsong Gan, Weijun Liu

Publication date 19 July 2023

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2023.113534

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupblock-transitivitypoint-primitivitySteiner 3-design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10)

Review text

A \(t\)-\((v,k,\lambda)\) design \(D\) is a pair \((X,B)\) where \(X\) is a \(v\)-set of points and \(B\) is a collection of \(k\)-subsets of \(X\) called blocks with the property that every \(t\)-subset of \( X\) is contained in precisely \(\lambda\) blocks. When \(\lambda = 1\), \(D\) is called a Steiner \(t\)-design. If \(t < k < v-t\), then \(D\) is called nontrivial. An automorphism of a \(t\)-design is a permutation of the points which preserves the blocks. An automorphism of a design is called block-transitive if it acts transitively on the blocks and point-primitive if it acts primitively on the points. The main result of this paper is to show that if \(G\) is a block-transitive point-primitive automorphism group of a nontrivial Steiner 3-design, then \(G\) is either affine or almost simple.

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