Block designs with near-minimal number of blocks

DOI10.4171/EM/127MaRDI QIDQ1045950zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Osvaldo Marrero

Publication date 18 December 2009

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_abstract.php?issn=0013-6018&vol=64&iss=4&rank=2

zbMATH Keywords

balanced incomplete block designBIBDcombinatorial design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05)

Review text

This paper discusses the existance of balanced incomplete block designs, in which the number of blocks are closed to the number of points. Only elementary methods are used in the proofs.

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