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Conway groupoids, regular two-graphs and supersimple designs

Group Theory 2015-10-23 v1

Abstract

A 2(n,4,λ)2-(n,4,\lambda) design (Ω,B)(\Omega, \mathcal{B}) is said to be supersimple if distinct lines intersect in at most two points. From such a design, one can construct a certain subset of Sym(Ω)(\Omega) called a "Conway groupoid". The construction generalizes Conway's construction of the groupoid M13M_{13}. It turns out that several infinite families of groupoids arise in this way, some associated with 3-transposition groups, which have two additional properties. Firstly the set of collinear point-triples forms a regular two-graph, and secondly the symmetric difference of two intersecting lines is again a line. In this paper, we show each of these properties corresponds to a group-theoretic property on the groupoid and we classify the Conway groupoids and the supersimple designs for which both of these two additional properties hold.

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@article{arxiv.1510.06680,
  title  = {Conway groupoids, regular two-graphs and supersimple designs},
  author = {Nick Gill and Neil I. Gillespie and Cheryl E. Praeger and Jason Semeraro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06680},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages

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