2025/12/20
Seyed Hassan Alavi

Seyed Hassan Alavi

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6442-2507
Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
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E-mail: alavi.s.hassan [at] gmail.com
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Research

Title
On symmetries of block designs
Type
Speech
Keywords
Automorphism groups, designs
Year
2024
Researchers Seyed Hassan Alavi

Abstract

A t-design with parameters (v, k, 2) is an incidence structure consisting of a set of v points and a set of b blocks with the incidence relation that every block is incident with exactly k points, and every t-subset of points is contained in exactly ^ blocks. An automorphism group of a t-design is a group of permutations on points of the design which maps blocks to blocks and preserves the incidence and non-incidence. A t-design is said to be block-transitive if it admits an automorphism group acting transitively on the block set. In this talk, we present a general construction of a block-transitive t-design that preserves a higher-dimensional grid structure as the point set. We also give explicit constructions of examples for grids of dimensions three and four, and ask several open questions.