{"title":"3-Designs From \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 PSL\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 (\u0000 \u0000 2\u0000 ,\u0000 q\u0000 \u0000 )\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 With Cyclic Starter Blocks","authors":"Akihide Hanaki, Kenji Kobayashi, Akihiro Munemasa","doi":"10.1002/jcd.22014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jcd.22014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We consider when the projective special linear group over a finite field defines a block-transitive 3-design with a starter block which is a multiplicative subgroup of the field. For a prime power <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>q</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>≡</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>mod</mi>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>20</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>, we will show that the multiplicative subgroup of order 5 is a starter block of a 3-design if and only if the multiplicative subgroup of order 10 is a starter block of a 3-design. The former is the family of 3-<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>q</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>5</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math> designs investigated by Li, Deng and Zhang, while the latter appear in a different context by Bonnecaze and Solé for the case <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>q</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>41</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics></math>. We also show a similar equivalence for multiplicative subgroups of orders 13 and 26 for a prime power <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>q</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>≡</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 <mspace></mspace>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":15389,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Combinatorial Designs","volume":"34 2","pages":"104-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}