New upper bounds on the minimum size of covering designs

DOI<21::AID-JCD2>3.0.CO;2-Y 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6610(1998)6:1<21::AID-JCD2>3.0.CO;2-YzbMath0910.05018OpenAlexW2006009257MaRDI QIDQ4222173

Iliya Bluskov, Heikki O. Hämäläinen

Publication date: 9 April 1999

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1520-6610(1998)6:1<21::aid-jcd2>3.0.co;2-y

zbMATH Keywords

covering numbercovering designconstant weight covering code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of packing and covering (05B40)

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