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By Michael Huber

The characterization of combinatorial or geometric buildings when it comes to their teams of automorphisms has attracted massive curiosity within the final a long time and is now in most cases seen as a ordinary generalization of Felix Klein’s Erlangen program(1872).Inaddition,especiallyfor?nitestructures,importantapplications to useful subject matters corresponding to layout thought, coding conception and cryptography have made the ?eld much more appealing. the subject material of this study monograph is the learn and sophistication- cation of ?ag-transitive Steiner designs, that's, combinatorial t-(v,k,1) designs which admit a gaggle of automorphisms appearing transitively on incident point-block pairs. on account of the classi?cation of the ?nite basic teams, it's been attainable in recent times to represent Steiner t-designs, often for t=2,adm- ting teams of automorphisms with su?ciently robust symmetry houses. For Steiner 2-designs, arguably the main normal effects were the classi?cation of all aspect 2-transitive Steiner 2-designs in 1985 via W. M. Kantor, and the virtually entire decision of all ?ag-transitive Steiner 2-designs introduced in 1990 byF.Buekenhout,A.Delandtsheer,J.Doyen,P.B.Kleidman,M.W.Liebeck, and J. Saxl. in spite of the fact that, regardless of the classi?cation of the ?nite basic teams, for Steiner t-designs witht> 2 lots of the characterizations of those varieties have remained long-standing tough difficulties. Speci?cally, the decision of all ?- transitive Steiner t-designs with three? t? 6 has been of specific curiosity and item of analysis for greater than forty years.