Speaker
Dr
Emanuele Brugnoli
(University of Palermo)
Description
A $2-(v,k,1)$ design or, also, a Steiner $2$-design is said to be cyclic if it admits an automorphism cyclically permuting all its points. To establish the number NC$(v,k)$ of cyclic $2-(v,k,1)$ designs is in general not feasible and very little is known about this number. By ``playing'' with $(v,k,1)$ difference families, some lower bounds on NC$(v,k)$ are given. In particular, for primes $p=6n+1$ with $p\equiv\pm 1$ (mod $5$), a construction involving the golden ratio of $\mathbb{Z}_p$ and the Narayana cows sequence is shown to give NC$(p,3)>2^{3n/2}$.
Primary authors
Dr
Emanuele Brugnoli
(University of Palermo)
Prof.
Marco BURATTI
(University of Perugia)
Prof.
Mikhail MUZYCHUK
(Netanya Academic College)
