Subdesigns in Complementary Path Decompositions and Incomplete Two-fold Designs with Block Size Four

Abstract

We give a complete solution to the existence problem for subdesigns in complementary \(\mathrm{P}_3\)-decompositions, where \(\mathrm{P}_3\) denotes the path of length three. As a corollary we obtain the spectrum for incomplete designs with block size four and \(\lambda = 2\), having one hole.