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Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Published in: Designs, Codes and Cryptography 1-2/2017

02-07-2016

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

Author: Vladimir D. Tonchev

Published in: Designs, Codes and Cryptography | Issue 1-2/2017

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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.
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Metadata
Title
On resolvable Steiner 2-designs and maximal arcs in projective planes
Author
Vladimir D. Tonchev
Publication date
02-07-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Designs, Codes and Cryptography / Issue 1-2/2017
Print ISSN: 0925-1022
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7586
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-016-0243-2

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