Resolvable Group Divisible Designs with Large Groups

  • Peter J. Dukes
  • Esther R. Lamken
  • Alan C.H. Ling
Keywords: Graph decomposition, Resolvability, Transversal design

Abstract

We prove that the necessary divisibility conditions are sufficient for the existence of resolvable group divisible designs with a fixed number of sufficiently large groups. Our method combines an application of the Rees product construction with a streamlined recursion based on incomplete transversal designs. With similar techniques, we also obtain new results on decompositions of complete multipartite graphs into a prescribed graph.

Published
2016-11-10
Article Number
P4.24