A Complete Generalization of Clatworthy Group Divisible Designs

  • Authors:
  • Fei Gao;Gennian Ge

  • Affiliations:
  • feigao.chn@gmail.com and gnge@zju.edu.cn;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Partially balanced incomplete block designs (PBIBDs) have a long history and have been extensively used in agriculture and industrial experiments. Since the book of Clatworthy on two-associate-class partially balanced designs was published in 1973, little progress has been made on the construction of these designs. Group divisible designs (GDDs) are an important type of PBIBD with two associate classes. The existence of a GDD with block size $k=3$ was completely settled by Fu, Rodger, and Sarvate. In their works, the most difficult case to solve was when the number of groups, $m$, is less than the block size $k$. The existence of GDDs when $m