Difference Sets Corresponding to a Class of Symmetric Designs

Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-236

  Ma, Siu Lun ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Difference set; McFarland's difference set; Symmetric design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010992331     PISSN: 09251022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008200605620     Document Type: Article

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