A note on the structure of pairwise balanced designs

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(85)90103-7MaRDI QIDQ1063602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lewis E. Varga

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(85)90103-7

zbMATH Keywords

intersectionlargest blockspairwise balanced design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05)

Review text

We show that if a pairwise balanced design with \(\lambda =1\) has v objects and block sizes between 2 and v-2, and it is not a symmetric balanced design, then each of its largest blocks has a nonempty intersection with at least v other blocks.

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