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Duplicated Steiner triple systems with self-orthogonal near resolutions

Combinatorics 2025-04-24 v2

Abstract

A Steiner triple system, STS(v)(v), is a family of 33-subsets (blocks) of a set of vv elements such that any two elements occur together in precisely one block. A collection of triples consisting of two copies of each block of an STS is called a duplicated Steiner triple system, DSTS. A resolvable (or near resolvable) DSTS is called self-orthogonal if every pair of distinct classes in the resolution has at most one block in common. We provide several methods to construct self-orthogonal near resolvable DSTS and settle the existence of such designs for all values of vv with only four possible exceptions. This addresses a recent question of Bryant, Davies and Neubecker.

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@article{arxiv.2406.15614,
  title  = {Duplicated Steiner triple systems with self-orthogonal near resolutions},
  author = {Peter J. Dukes and Esther R. Lamken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15614},
  year   = {2025}
}

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