Making the Mols Table

Charles J. Colbourn and Jeffrey H. Dinitz
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Charles J. Colbourn: University of Vermont, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Jeffrey H. Dinitz: University of Waterloo, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization

Chapter Chapter 5 in Computational and Constructive Design Theory, 1996, pp 67-134 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper is not to be read by the faint of heart. No proofs are given, but it contains statements of a truly alarming number of constructions for transversal designs and incomplete transversal designs. The paper is a record of an attempt to construct tables of the best results implied by known constructions for the existence of certain classes of mutually orthogonal latin squares and incomplete latin squares. Sections §1–6 establish the mathematical background for the paper. We begin with basic definitions in §1. Then the following five sections state a fairly complete collection of construction techniques. It may well be impossible to write a complete list of variants of known constructions, and it is certainly beyond reason to do so. We content ourselves with a large battery of the constructions that have been exploited in the literature. In §7–9, we describe a package developed in Maple which instantiates most (but not all) of the constructions in code. Issues in the design of this package are addressed, and a discussion of the architecture of the package is given.

Keywords: Projective Plane; Discrete Math; Prime Power; Parallel Class; Affine Plane (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-2497-4_5

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