The Art of Combinatorics
A Volume in Honour of Aart Blokhuis

A Special Issue in the journal Designs Codes and Cryptography (ISSN: 0925-1022 (Print) 1573-7586 (Online))

Contributions by Aart Blokhuis to finite geometry, discrete mathematics, and combinatorics
Simeon Ball, Michel Lavrauw, Tamás Szőnyi

Spectral symmetry in conference matrices
Willem H. Haemers, Leila Parsaei Majd

Coloring linear hypergraphs: the Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture and the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
Oliver Janzer, Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

On the sunflower bound for k-spaces, pairwise intersecting in a point
A. Blokhuis, M. De Boeck, J. D'haeseleer

Constructing saturating sets in projective spaces using subgeometries
Lins Denaux

The Eckardt point configuration of cubic surfaces revisited
Anton Betten, Fatma Karaoglu

Diagonal groups and arcs over groups
R. A. Bailey, Peter J. Cameron, Michael Kinyon

A characterization of the Coxeter cap
B. De Bruyn, M. Gao

Combinatorial invariants for nets of conics in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q)\)
Michel Lavrauw, Tomasz Popiel, John Sheekey

On sets of subspaces with two intersection dimensions and a geometrical junta bound
Giovanni Longobardi, Leo Storme, Rocco Trombetti

Automorphism subgroups for designs with \(\lambda=1\)
William M. Kantor

Neumaier graphs with few eigenvalues
Aida Abiad, Bart De Bruyn, Jozefien D'haeseleer

Approximate unitary 3-designs from transvection Markov chains
Xinyu Tan, Narayanan Rengaswamy, Robert Calderbank

Delandtsheer-Doyen parameters for block-transitive point-imprimitive 2-designs
Carmen Amarra, Alice Devillers, Cheryl E. Praeger

The extended coset leader weight enumerator of a twisted cubic code
Aart Blokhuis, Ruud Pellikaan, Tamás Szőnyi

The equivalence of two inequalities for quasisymmetric designs (arXiv version)
Andries Brouwer



This is the list of papers which were accepted for the Special Issue in the journal Designs Codes and Cryptography dedicated to the scientific work of Aart. The published articles can be found here. The paper by Andries Brouwer can be found on the arXiv.