Indecomposable large sets of Steiner triple systems with indices 5, 6

Citation
Cheng, Mei Hui et Tian, Zi Hong, Indecomposable large sets of Steiner triple systems with indices 5, 6, Acta mathematica Sinica. English series (Print) , 28(11), 2012, pp. 2169-2184
ISSN journal
14398516
Volume
28
Issue
11
Year of publication
2012
Pages
2169 - 2184
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
A family (X, B 1), (X, B 2), ., (X, B q ) of q STS(.)s is a .-fold large set of STS(.) and denoted by LSTS . (.) if every 3-subset of X is contained in exactly . STS(.)s of the collection. It is indecomposable and denoted by IDLSTS . (.) if there does not exist an LSTS..(.) contained in the collection for any .. < .. In this paper, we show that for . = 5, 6, there is an IDLSTS . (.) for . . 1 or 3 (mod 6) with the exception IDLSTS6(7).