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Non-Existence Criteria for Small Configurations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Judith Q. Longyear*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
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For graph theoretic terms, see Tutte [1], A rank 2 tactical configuration of girth 2g and order (s, t) may be regarded as a (1 + s, 1 + t)-regular bipartite graph of girth 2g. We assume s ≦ t. Using a technique of Friedman [2] we show (i) and (ii).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

References

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