scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1560218

This paper is intended to be a textbook of a series of Bannai lectures at the summer school in Braunschweig, Germany (1999). There are: Introduction, Motivation from permutation groups (Section 1), Fundamental properties of association schemes and their Bose-Mesner algebras (Section 2), \(P\)- (\(Q\)-)polynomial association schemes, and orthogonal polynomials (Section 3), Delsarte's theory of codes and designs in association schemes (Section 4), Spherical codes and designs (Section 5), Appendix (i): A survey of current research on the theory of association schemes, and discussions of some open problems, Appendix (ii): Suggestions for further readings and supplementary remarks. Some problems: it would be interesting if the group association schemes are used in the classification problem of finite simple groups (A.6); prove that for each fixed \(k\geq 3\), there are only finitely many distance-regular graphs (A.8). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0952.00028].

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