Direct Product of Derived Steiner Systems Using Inversive Planes

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A Steiner system S(t, k, v) is a pair (P, B) where P is a v-set and B is a collection of k-subsets of P (usually called blocks) such that every t-subset of P is contained in exactly one block of B. As is well known, associated with each point x ∈ P is a S(t � 1, k � 1, v � 1) defined on the set Px = P\{x} with blocksB(x) = {b\{x}|x ∈ b and b ∈ B}.The Steiner system (Px, B(x)) is said to be derived from (P, B) and is called (obviously) a derived Steiner (t – 1, k – 1)-system. Very little is known about derived Steiner systems despite much effort (cf. [11]). It is not even known whether every Steiner triple system is derived.Steiner systems are closely connected to equational classes of algebras (see [7]) for certain values of k.

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