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Partitionable sets, almost partitionable sets and their applications

Combinatorics 2023-11-27 v2

Abstract

This paper introduces almost partitionable sets to generalize the known concept of partitionable sets. These notions provide a unified frame to construct Z\mathbb{Z}-cyclic patterned starter whist tournaments and cyclic balanced sampling plans excluding contiguous units. The existences of partitionable sets and almost partitionable sets are investigated. As an application, a large number of optical orthogonal codes achieving the Johnson bound or the Johnson bound minus one are constructed.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07189,
  title  = {Partitionable sets, almost partitionable sets and their applications},
  author = {Yanxun Chang and Simone Costa and Tao Feng and Xiaomiao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07189},
  year   = {2023}
}
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