On large sets of disjoint steiner triple systems, V

AbstractIn a previous paper (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 34 (1983), 156–182), to construct large sets of disjoint STS(3n)'s (i.e., LTS(3n)'s), a kind of combinatorial design, denoted by LD(n), where n is the order of design, was introduced and it was shown that if there exist both an LD(n) and an LTS(n + 2), then there exists an LTS(3n) also. In this paper, after having established some recursive theorems of LD(n), the following result was proved: If n is a positive integer such that n≡11 (mod 12), then there exists an LD(n), except possibly n ∈ {23, 47, 59, 83, 107, 167, 179, 227, 263, 299, 347, 383, 719, 767, 923, 1439}