Abstract: | Let be the number of pairwise disjoint Steiner quadruple systems (SQS) of order . A simple counting argument shows that and a set of such systems is called a large set. No nontrivial large set was constructed yet, although it is known that they exist if or is large enough. When and or , we present a recursive construction and prove a recursive formula on , as follows: The related construction has a few advantages over some of the previously known constructions for pairwise disjoint SQSs. |