Mosaics of combinatorial designs

DOI10.1007/S10623-017-0328-6zbMATH Open1382.05013arXiv1503.01643OpenAlexW2963383375MaRDI QIDQ1692151FDOQ1692151

Authors: Oliver Wilhelm Gnilke, Marcus Greferath, Mario-Osvin Pavčević 

Publication date: 26 January 2018

Published in: Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Looking at incidence matrices of $t$-$(v,k,lambda)$ designs as $vimesb$ matrices with $2$ possible entries, each of which indicates incidences of a $t$-design, we introduce the notion of a $c$-mosaic of designs, having the same number of points and blocks, as a matrix with $c$ different entries, such that each entry defines incidences of a design. In fact, a $vimesb$ matrix is decomposed in $c$ incidence matrices of designs, each denoted by a different colour, hence this decomposition might be seen as a tiling of a matrix with incidence matrices of designs as well. These mosaics have applications in experiment design when considering a simultaneous run of several different experiments. We have constructed infinite series of examples of mosaics and state some probably non-trivial open problems. Furthermore we extend our definition to the case of $q$-analogues of designs in a meaningful way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01643

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zbMATH Keywords

\(t\)-designaffine planeresolvable design\(c\)-mosaic of designs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Other designs, configurations (05B30)

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