A survey on association schemes on triples

Jose Maria P Balmaceda, Dom Vito A Briones

Abstract


Association schemes on triples (ASTs) are ternary analogues of classical association schemes, whose relations and adjacency algebras are ternary instead of binary. We provide a survey of the current progress in the study of ASTs, highlighting open questions, suggesting research directions, and producing some related results. We review properties of the ternary adjacency algebras of ASTs, ASTs whose relations are invariant under some group action, and ASTs obtained from 2-designs and two-graphs. We also provide a notion of fusion and fission ASTs, using the AST obtained from the affine special linear group ASL(2, q) as an example.

Keywords


algebraic combinatorics; ternary algebra; association scheme on triples

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5614/ejgta.2023.11.1.2

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