A Diophantine equation arising from tight 4-designs

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Authors Andrew Bremner

Publication date 1979

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

quartic Diophantine equationtight 4-designsWitt designs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25)

Review text

The author proves, algebraically, that the Diophantine equation \[ (2y^2-3)^2=x^2(3x^2-2) \] has only the solutions \((\pm x,\pm y)=(1,1),(3,3)\). This implies that the only tight 4-designs are the Witt designs.

Cited in

(12)

• Coherent algebras
• Inequalities for quasisymmetric designs
• The family of t-designs. Part I
• Inequalities and bounds for quasi-symmetric 3-designs
• \((2s-1)\)-designs with \(s\) intersection numbers
• 5-designs with three intersection numbers
• Nonexistence of nontrivial tight 8-designs
• The family of block designs with some combinatorial properties
• The absolute bound for coherent configurations
• Nonexistence results for tight block designs
• A survey on tight Euclidean \(t\)-designs and tight relative \(t\)-designs in certain association schemes
• Schematic 4-designs

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