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Doubly resolvable Steiner quadruple systems of orders \(2^{2n+1}\)

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A t-\((v,k,\lambda )\) design is a pair \((X,\mathcal{B})\), where X is a v-element set and \(\mathcal{B}\) is a set of k-subsets of X, called blocks, with the property that every t-subset of X is contained in exactly \(\lambda \) blocks. A t-\((v,k,\lambda )\) design \((X,\mathcal{B})\) is said to be \((s,\mu )\)-resolvable if \(\mathcal{B}\) can be partitioned into \(\mathcal{B}_1|\cdots |\mathcal{B}_c\) such that each \((X,\mathcal{B}_i)\) is an s-\((v,k,\mu )\) design, further, if each \((X,\mathcal{B}_i)\) is also \((r,\nu )\)-resolvable, then such an \((s,\mu )\)-resolvable t-design is called \((s,\mu )(r,\nu )\)-doubly resolvable. In 1980, Hartman constructed a (2, 3)(1, 1)-doubly resolvable 3-(v, 4, 1) design for \(v\in \{20,32,44,68,80,104\}\) and a (2, 3)-resolvable 3-\((2^7,4,1)\) design. In this paper, we construct (2, 3)(1, 1)-doubly resolvable 3-\((2^{2n+1},4,1)\) designs for all positive integers n.

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Research is supported by NSFC Grants 11701303 (J. Bao), 11871363 (L. Ji).

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Xu, J., Bao, J. & Ji, L. Doubly resolvable Steiner quadruple systems of orders \(2^{2n+1}\). Des. Codes Cryptogr. 88, 2377–2386 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-020-00788-x

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