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Spreads and group divisible designs

Authors: Christine M. O'Keefe; Alan Rahilly;

Spreads and group divisible designs

Abstract

This paper establishes a beautiful relation between geometric \(t\)-spreads and group divisible designs the dual of which is again a group divisible design. Let \({\mathcal S}\) be a \(t\)-spread of \(PG(d,q)\), i.e. a partition of the point set of \(PG(d,q)\) in \(t\)-dimensional subspaces, called the component of \({\mathcal S}\). The authors construct a 1-design \({\mathcal G}({\mathcal S})\) from \({\mathcal S}\) as follows: the points of \({\mathcal G}({\mathcal S})\) are the points of \(PG(d,q)\) and the blocks of \({\mathcal G}({\mathcal S})\) are the hyperplanes \(H\) where all components of \({\mathcal S}\) contained in \(H\) are removed. Then they show that two points in the same component of \({\mathcal S}\) are incident with a constant number \(\lambda_ 1\) of blocks, and two points in different components are incident with a constant number \(\lambda_ 2\neq\lambda_ 1\) of blocks, hence \({\mathcal G}({\mathcal S})\) is a group divisible design. The main result of the paper under review is that the dual of \({\mathcal G}({\mathcal S})\) is also a group divisible design if and only if the \(t\)-spread \({\mathcal S}\) is regular, i.e. every \((2t+1)\)- dimensional subspace of \(PG(d,q)\) spanned by two components of \({\mathcal S}\) is covered by the components contained in it.

Keywords

spreads, Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry, group divisible designs, General block designs in finite geometry, Combinatorial aspects of block designs

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