Higher-dimensional grid-imprimitive block-transitive designs

It was shown in 1989 by Delandtsheer and Doyen that, for a \(2\)-design with \(v\) points and block size \(k\), a block-transitive group of automorphisms can be point-imprimitive (that is, leave invariant a nontrivial partition of the point set) only if \(v\) is small enough relative to \(k\). Recen...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-04
Main Authors: Seyed Hassan Alavi, Amarra, Carmen, Daneshkhah, Ashraf, Devillers, Alice, Praeger, Cheryl E
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Language:English
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Automorphisms
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Summary:It was shown in 1989 by Delandtsheer and Doyen that, for a \(2\)-design with \(v\) points and block size \(k\), a block-transitive group of automorphisms can be point-imprimitive (that is, leave invariant a nontrivial partition of the point set) only if \(v\) is small enough relative to \(k\). Recently, exploiting a construction of block-transitive point-imprimitive \(2\)-designs given by Cameron and the last author, four of the authors studied \(2\)-designs admitting a block-transitive group that preserves a two-dimensional grid structure on the point set. Here we consider the case where there a block-transitive group preserves a multidimensional grid structure on points. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for such \(2\)-designs to exist in terms of the parameters of the grid, and certain `array parameters' which describe a subset of points (which will be a block of the design). Using this criterion, we construct explicit examples of \(2\)-designs for grids of dimensions three and four, and pose several open questions.
ISSN:2331-8422