Constructions for cyclic 3-designs and improved results on cyclic Steiner quadruple systems

Abstract

This paper gives some recursive constructions for cyclic 3-designs. Using these constructions we improve Grannell and Griggs's construction for cyclic Steiner quadruple systems, and many known recursive constructions for cyclic Steiner quadruple systems are unified. Finally, some new infinite families of cyclic Steiner quadruple systems are obtained. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 19:178-201, 2011