Duplicated Steiner triple systems with self-orthogonal near resolutions
Combinatorics
2025-04-24 v2
Abstract
A Steiner triple system, STS, is a family of -subsets (blocks) of a set of 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 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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Author list is changing, and the new author does not want the paper on arXiv