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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2015 Volume 288, Pages 209–223 (Mi tm3611)

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A survey on tight Euclidean $t$-designs and tight relative $t$-designs in certain association schemes

Eiichi Bannaia, Etsuko Bannaib, Yan Zhua

a Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240 China
b Misakigaoka 2-8-21, Itoshima-shi, Fukuoka, 819-1136, Japan

Abstract: It is known that there is a close analogy between the two relations "Euclidean $t$-designs vs. spherical $t$-designs" and "relative $t$-designs in binary Hamming association schemes vs. combinatorial $t$-designs." We first look at this analogy and survey the known results, putting emphasis on the study of tight relative $t$-designs in certain $Q$-polynomial association schemes. We then specifically study tight relative $2$-designs on two shells in binary Hamming association schemes $H(n,2)$ and Johnson association schemes $J(v,k)$. The purpose of this paper is to convince the reader that there is a rich theory even for these special cases and that the time is ripe to study tight relative $t$-designs more systematically for general $Q$-polynomial association schemes.

UDC: 519.1

Received in September 2014

Language: English

DOI: 10.1134/S0371968515010148


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2015, 288, 189–202

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