A hypergroupal characterization of projective planes Original Research Article

We give two sufficient conditions for a hypergroupoid to be a feeble semi-hypergroupoid and a sufficient condition to be a feeble hypergroup. We show that every hypergroup in the class of the k-quasi-Steiner hypergroupoids is feebly associative. Finally, we apply these algebraic results to study Steiner systems; in particular, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a Steiner system to be a projective plane.