Asymptotic results on the existence of 4-RGDDs and uniform 5-GDDs

Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 222-237

  Ge, Gennian ^a   Ling, Alan C H ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

4 frames; 4 RGDDs; 5 GDDs

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744366914     PISSN: 10638539     EISSN: 15206610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcd.20020     Document Type: Article

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