The present book is based on the lectare notes of a graduate course DesignTheory which was given at the Center for Combinatorics of Nankai Unversityin spring of 2001. The lecture notes were scattered over the expertsand students.
Preface
1.BIBDs
1.1 Definition and Fundamental Properties of BIBDs
1.2 Isomorphisms and Automorphisms
1.3 Constructions of New BIBDs from Old Ones
1.4 Exercises
2.Symmetric BIBDs
2.1 Definition and Fundamental Properties
2.2 Bruck-Ryser-Chowla Theorem
2.3 Finite Projective Planes as Symmetric BIBDs
2.4 Difference Sets and Symmetric BIBDs
2.5 Hadamard Matrices and Symmetric BIBDs
2.6 Derived and Residual BIBDs
2.7 Exercises
3.Resolvable BIBDs
3.1 Definitions and Examples
3.2 Finite Affine Planes
3.3 Properties of Resolvable BIBDs
3.4 Exercises
4.Orthogonal Latin Squares
4.1 Orthogonal Latin Squares
4.2 Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares