A new relationship between block designs

DOI10.1155/2016/7092474MaRDI QIDQ2402951zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Shramchenko, Vasilisa Shramchenko

Publication date 15 September 2017

Published in International Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08325

zbMATH Keywords

friendly families

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05)

Abstract: We propose a procedure of constructing new block designs starting from a given one by looking at the intersections of its blocks with various sets and grouping those sets according to the structure of the intersections. We introduce a symmetric relationship of friendship between block designs built on a set $V$ and consider families of block designs where all designs are friends of each other, the so-called friendly families. We show that a friendly family admits a partial ordering. Furthermore, we exhibit a map from the power set of $V$, partially ordered by inclusion, to a friendly family of a particular type which preserves the partial order.

Review text

Summary: We propose a procedure of constructing new block designs starting from a given one by looking at the intersections of its blocks with various sets and grouping those sets according to the structure of the intersections. We introduce a symmetric relationship of friendship between block designs built on a set \(V\) and consider families of block designs where all designs are friends of each other, the so-called friendly families. We show that a friendly family admits a partial ordering. Furthermore, we exhibit a map from the power set of \(V\), partially ordered by inclusion, to a friendly family of a particular type which preserves the partial order.

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