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The Non-Existence of Certain Affine Resolvable Balanced Incomplete BlockDesigns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

S. S. Shrikhande*
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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A method of proving the impossibility of certain Affine Resolvable Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (A.R.B.I.B.D.) has been given by the author elsewhere [9]. More complete results in the same direction are obtained here using the ideas of a paper by Connor [4].

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1953

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