Combinatorics of Symmetric Designs

ISBN-13: 9780521818339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 520 str.

Yury J. Ionin; Mohan S. Shrikhande

Opis

Providing a unified exposition of the theory of symmetric designs with emphasis on recent developments, this volume covers the combinatorial aspects of the theory, giving particular attention to the construction of symmetric designs and related objects. The last five chapters are devoted to balanced generalized weighing matrices, decomposable symmetric designs, subdesigns of symmetric designs, non-embeddable quasi-residual designs, and Ryser designs. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of over 400 entries. Detailed proofs and a large number of exercises make it suitable as a text for an advanced course in combinatorial designs.

Recenzje

'Most results in these chapters have never appeared in book form. Researchers in all areas of combinational designs, including coding theory and finite geometries, will find much of interest here. Detailed proofs and a large number of exercises make this book suitable as a text for an advance course in combinatorial designs.' L'enseignement mathematique

Spis treści

1. Combinatorics of finite sets; 2. Introduction to designs; 3. Vector spaces over finite fields; 4. Hadamard matrices; 5. Resolvable designs; 6. Symmetric designs and t-designs; 7. Symmetric designs and regular graphs; 8. Block intersection structure of designs; 9. Difference sets; 10. Balanced generalized weighing matrices; 11. Decomposable symmetric designs; 12. Subdesigns of symmetric designs; 13. Non-embeddable quasi-residual designs; 14. Ryser designs; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.