Group divisible designs with block size four and group type g um1 for small g

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 285, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 97-120

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

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Double group divisible designs; Group divisible designs; Incomplete group divisible designs

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING;

DOUBLE GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS; GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS; INCOMPLETE GROUP DIVISIBLE DESIGNS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 3142603324     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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