Chee, Yeow Meng and Colbourn, Charles J. and Ling, Alan C. H. and Wilson, Richard M. (2013) Covering and packing for pairs. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A, 120 (7). pp. 1440-1449. ISSN 0097-3165. doi:10.1016/j.jcta.2013.04.005. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130930-153617380
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Abstract
When a v-set can be equipped with a set of k-subsets so that every 2-subset of the v-set appears in exactly (or at most, or at least) one of the chosen k-subsets, the result is a balanced incomplete block design (or packing, or covering, respectively). For each k, balanced incomplete block designs are known to exist for all sufficiently large values of v that meet certain divisibility conditions. When these conditions are not met, one can ask for the packing with the most blocks and/or the covering with the fewest blocks. Elementary necessary conditions furnish an upper bound on the number of blocks in a packing and a lower bound on the number of blocks in a covering. In this paper it is shown that for all sufficiently large values of v, a packing and a covering on v elements exist whose numbers of blocks differ from the basic bounds by no more than an additive constant depending only on k.
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| Additional Information: | © 2013 Elsevier Inc. Received 24 September 2011. Available online 23 April 2013. We thank an anonymous referee for helpful comments on the presentation. | |||||||||
| Subject Keywords: | Balanced incomplete block design; Pair packing; Pair covering; Group divisible design; Pairwise balanced design | |||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 7 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcta.2013.04.005 | |||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20130930-153617380 | |||||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130930-153617380 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Yeow Meng Chee, Charles J. Colbourn, Alan C.H. Ling, Richard M. Wilson, Covering and packing for pairs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, Volume 120, Issue 7, September 2013, Pages 1440-1449, ISSN 0097-3165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2013.04.005. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0097316513000691) | |||||||||
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| ID Code: | 41568 | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Ruth Sustaita | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 30 Sep 2013 22:52 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2021 04:31 |
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