A theorem on associative block designs

✍ Scribed by J.A La Poutré

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-365X
• DOI: 10.1016/0012-365x(86)90164-0

✦ Synopsis

We show that a necessary condition for the existence of an ABD(k, w) with w > 3 is k ~< (~). This generalizes a result of Brouwer and proves the nonexistence of ABD(16, 6).