Resolvable group divisible designs with block size four and group size six

  • Authors:
  • G. Ge;C. W. H. Lam

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Suzhou University, Suzhou 215006, People's Republic of China;Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Qué., Canada H3G 1MB

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we continue the investigation for the existence of resolvable group divisible designs with block size four, group-type hn and index unity. The necessary conditions for such a design are n ≥ 4, hn ≡ 0(mod 4) and h(n - 1) ≡ 0(mod 3). The existence of these designs depends mainly on the cases h = 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12. Up to now, more than half of these cases have been solved or almost solved except for h = 2 and 6. We shall show that the above necessary conditions are also sufficient for h = 6 except n = 4 and possibly excepting n ∈ {6, 52, 54, 58, 62, 68, 74, 102, 114, 124}.