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December 22, 20250 citationsOpen Access

Block-transitive designs with a poset of imprimitive partitions

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CACarmen AmarraADAlice DevillersCPCheryl E. Praeger

Key Points

  • This research investigates specific conditions for block designs that exhibit transitive characteristics under certain automorphism groups.
  • Analyzed block designs with a focus on transitive automorphism groups and their effects on partitions.
  • Used the theory of generalised wreath products to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for block-transitive designs.
  • Identified conditions for forming a block-set of a G-block-transitive 2-design.
  • Provided examples of 2-designs involving three proper partitions and an N-poset with four partitions.

Abstract

We study block designs which admit an automorphism group that is transitive on blocks and points, and leaves invariant every partition in a given finite poset of partitions of the point set. The full stabiliser G of all the partitions in the poset is a generalised wreath product. We use the theory of generalised wreath products to give necessary and sufficient conditions, in terms of the `array' of a point-subset B, for the set of G-images of B to form the block-set of a G-block-transitive 2-design. This generalises previous results for the special cases where the poset is a chain or an anti-chain. We also give explicit infinite families of examples of 2-designs for each poset involving three proper partitions, and for the famous N-poset with four partitions. (Posets with two proper partitions have been treated previously. ) This suggests the problem of finding explicit examples for other posets.

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Amarra et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69488bc877063b71e748d010https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2512.16246
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