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The existence of NRB[v, k] where k + 1 is an even prime power

✍ Scribed by Therese C. Y. Lee; Steven Furino


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
225 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
1063-8539

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✦ Synopsis


The existence of NRB [v, k] where k ≥ 7 and k + 1 is an even prime power is considered. We will show that there exists an NRB[kn+1, k] for all n > (3k

where k + 1 is an even prime power, k ≥ 7 and b = k 3 k 4k 2

. The tools used to construct this bound include the frames extracted from a construction of J. X. Lu's for resolvable balanced incomplete block designs.