Perfect Mendelsohn Designs With Equal-Sized Holes

F. E. Bennett1, L. Zhu2
1Department of Mathematics Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3M 2]6
2Department of Mathematics Suzhou University Suzhou 215006 People’s Republic of China

Abstract

It is shown that the obvious necessary condition \(\lambda h(h – 1)m^2 \equiv 0 \pmod{k}\) for the existence of a \((v, k, \lambda)\)-perfect Mendelsohn design with \(h\) holes of size \(m\) is sufficient in the case of block size three, except for a nonexisting \((6, 3, 1)\)-PMD.