On resolvable Steiner 2-designs and maximal arcs in projective planes

Authors

Vladimir Tonchev, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2017

Abstract

A combinatorial characterization of resolvable Steiner 2-(v, k, 1) designs embeddable as maximal arcs in a projective plane of order (v−k)/(k−1) is proved, and a generalization of a conjecture by Andries Brouwer (Geometries and groups, Springer, Heidelberg, 1981) is formulated.

Publisher's Statement

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-016-0243-2

Publication Title

Designs, Codes and Cryptography

Recommended Citation

Tonchev, V. (2017). On resolvable Steiner 2-designs and maximal arcs in projective planes. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 84(1-2), 165-172. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-016-0243-2
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