On Resolvable Difference Families

  • Authors:
  • Marco Buratti

  • Affiliations:
  • Universita‘ de L‘Aquila, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, I-67040 Poggio di Roio (Aq), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

A Steiner 2-design is said to be G-invariantly resolvable if admitsan automorphism group G and a resolution invariantunder G. Introducing and studying resolvable differencefamilies, we characterize the class of G-invariantlyresolvable Steiner 2-designs arising from relative differencefamilies over G. Such designs have been alreadystudied by Genma, Jimbo, and Mishima [13] in the case in whichG is cyclic. Developping their results, we provethat any (p, k, 1)-DF (p prime) whosebase blocks exactly cover p−1/k(k−1) distinctcosets of the k-th roots of unity (mod p),leads to a Ckp-invariantly resolvable cyclic(kp,k,1)-BBD. This induced us to propose severalconstructions for DF‘s having this property. In such a way weprove, in particular, the existence of a C5p-invariantlyresolvable cyclic (5p, 5, 1)-BBD for each prime p= 20n + 1