On group-divisible designs with block size four and group-type 6 um1

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 279, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 247-265

  Ge, Gennian ^a   Rees, R ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Group divisible designs; Incomplete nearly Kirkman triple systems

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS (GDD); INCOMPLETE NEARLY KIRKMAN TRIPLE SYSTEMS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 1342265860     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-365X(03)00272-3     Document Type: Article

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