Lifting of divisible designs

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Blunck;Hans Havlicek;Corrado Zanella

  • Affiliations:
  • Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 20146;Institut für Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria 1040;Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, Università di Padova, Vicenza, Italy 36100

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a construction of t-divisible designs (DDs) for t 3, because such DDs seem to be missing in the literature. To this end, tools such as finite projective spaces and their algebraic varieties are employed. More precisely, in a first step an abstract construction, called t-lifting, is developed. It starts from a set X containing a t-DD and a group G acting on X. Then several explicit examples are given, where X is a subset of PG(n,q) and G is a subgroup of GL_n + 1(q). In some cases X is obtained from a cone with a Veronesean or an h-sphere as its basis. In other examples, X arises from a projective embedding of a Witt design. As a result, for any integer t 驴 2 infinitely many non-isomorphic t-DDs are found.