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Cyclic Incidence Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marshall Hall  and
H. J. Ryser
Marshall Hall
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
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Let it be required to arrange v elements into v sets such that each set contains exactly k distinct elements and such that each pair of sets has exactly λ elements in common (0 < λ < k < v). This problem we refer to as the v, k,λ combinatorial problem.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 3 , 1951 , pp. 495 - 502
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1951

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