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A new relationship between block designs

Combinatorics 2017-01-31 v1

Abstract

We propose a procedure of constructing new block designs starting from a given one by looking at the intersections of its blocks with various sets and grouping those sets according to the structure of the intersections. We introduce a symmetric relationship of friendship between block designs built on a set VV and consider families of block designs where all designs are friends of each other, the so-called friendly families. We show that a friendly family admits a partial ordering. Furthermore, we exhibit a map from the power set of VV, partially ordered by inclusion, to a friendly family of a particular type which preserves the partial order.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08325,
  title  = {A new relationship between block designs},
  author = {Alexander Shramchenko and Vasilisa Shramchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08325},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages

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