Disjoint maximal arcs in projective planes of order 16.

This paper provides the results of some computer searches for disjoint maximal (52, 4)-arcs in the known planes of order 16. Thirty-seven new such sets are discovered: four in Johnson plane and thirty-three in Mathon plane, eighteen of which give examples of 104-sets of type (4,8) coming from non-isomorphic pairs of maximal (52, 4)-arcs, providing first examples for such sets. A new lower bound on the number of 104-sets of type (4,8) coming from disjoint maximal (52, 4)-arcs in the known planes of order 16 is obtained. The 104-length binary and ternary linear codes generated by the blocks of 1-designs associated with the known 104-sets of type (4,8) are classified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]