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The flag-transitive symmetric designs with 45 points, blocks of size 12, and 3 blocks on every point pair

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We construct two flag-transitive designs with the parameters of the title, and prove that these are the only two examples. One is point-primitive and related to unitary geometry, while the other is point-imprimitive and constructed from a 1-dimensional affine space. This classification may be contrasted with a construction by Mathon and Spence in 1996 of more than 3,700 designs with these parameters, almost a third of which had a trivial automorphism group.

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This paper forms part of Australian Research Council discovery grant project DP0557587.

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Praeger, C.E. The flag-transitive symmetric designs with 45 points, blocks of size 12, and 3 blocks on every point pair. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 44, 115–132 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-007-9071-8

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