Title
Existence of resolvable H-designs with group sizes 2, 3, 4 and 6
Abstract
In 1987, Hartman showed that the necessary condition v 驴 4 or 8 (mod 12) for the existence of a resolvable SQS(v) is also sufficient for all values of v, with 23 possible exceptions. These last 23 undecided orders were removed by Ji and Zhu in 2005 by introducing the concept of resolvable H-designs. In this paper, we first develop a simple but powerful construction for resolvable H-designs, i.e., a construction of an RH(g 2n ) from an RH((2g) n ), which we call group halving construction. Based on this construction, we provide an alternative existence proof for resolvable SQS(v)s by investigating the existence problem of resolvable H-designs with group size 2. We show that the necessary conditions for the existence of an RH(2 n ), namely, n 驴 2 or 4 (mod 6) and n 驴 4 are also sufficient. Meanwhile, we provide an alternative existence proof for resolvable H-designs with group size 6. These results are obtained by first establishing an existence result for resolvable H-designs with group size 4, that is, the necessary conditions n 驴 1 or 2 (mod 3) and n 驴 4 for the existence of an RH(4 n ) are also sufficient for all values of n except possibly n 驴 {73, 149}. As a consequence, the general existence problem of an RH(g n ) is solved leaving mainly the case of g 驴 0 (mod 12) open. Finally, we show that the necessary conditions for the existence of a resolvable G-design of type g n are also sufficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s10623-009-9332-9
Des. Codes Cryptography
Keywords
Field
DocType
B,4,-pairings,Candelabra systems,G-designs,H-designs,H-frames,Resolvable,Steiner quadruple systems,05B05
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Mod,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
1
0925-1022
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.58
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiande Zhang15215.19
Gennian Ge290495.51