Partitioning Sets of Quintuples into Designs

MartTIN J. SHARRY1
1Department of Mathematics The University of Queensland St. Lucia, Queensland 4067 AUSTRALIA

Abstract

It is shown that the collection of all \(\dbinom{12}{5}\) quintuples chosen from a set of twelve points can be partitioned into twelve mutually disjoint \(4-(11,5,1)\) designs in precisely \(24\) non-isomorphic ways. The results obtained are then used to show that the collection of all \(\dbinom{13}{6}\) hextuples chosen from a set of thirteen points cannot be partitioned into thirteen mutually disjoint \(5-(12,6,1)\) designs.