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This paper is a contribution to the classification of flag-transitive 2-\((v,4,\lambda )\) designs. We determine all such designs admitting \(G=PSL(2,q)\) as a flag-transitive automorphism group.
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The authors would like to thank referees for providing us helpful and constructive comments and suggestions, which led to the improvement of the article. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11801174).
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Zhan, X., Ding, S. & Bai, S. Flag-transitive 2-designs from PSL(2, q) with block size 4. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 87, 2723–2728 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-019-00648-3
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