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Friday, December 20, 2013

For Emil Artin

(On His Dies Natalis )

An Exceptional Isomorphism Between Geometric and
Combinatorial Steiner Triple Systems Underlies 
the Octads of the M24 Steiner System S(5, 8, 24).

This is asserted in an excerpt from… 

"The smallest non-rank 3 strongly regular graphs ​which satisfy the 4-vertex condition"
by Mikhail Klin, Mariusz Meszka, Sven Reichard, and Alex Rosa,
BAYREUTHER MATHEMATISCHE SCHRIFTEN 73 (2005), 152-212—

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Note that Theorem 46 of Klin et al.   describes the role of the Galois tesseract   in the Miracle Octad Generator
of R. T. Curtis (original 1976 version).  The tesseract  (a 4×4 array) supplies the geometric   part of the above
exceptional geometric-combinatorial isomorphism.

space"> geometric   part of the above
exceptional geometric-combinatorial isomorphism.