On Large Sets of v−1 L-Intersecting Steiner Triple Systems of Order v

  • Authors:
  • F. Franek;M. J. Grannell;T. S. Griggs;A. Rosa

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada;Department of Pure Mathematics, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom m.j.grannell@open.ac.uk;Department of Pure Mathematics, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper presents four new recursive constructions for large sets of v−1 STS(v). These facilitate the production of several new infinite families of such large sets. In particular, we obtain for each n≥2 a large set of 3n−1 STS (3n) whose systems intersect in 0 or 3 blocks.