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On Resolvable Multipartite G-Designs

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A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Ĉ km −factorization of the complete symmetric k−partite multi-digraph λK*(n1,n2,...,n k ) is obtained for odd k. As a consequence, a resolvable (k,n,km,λ) multipartite Ĉ km −design exists for odd k if and only if m|n. This deduces a result of Ushio when m=1 and k=3. Further, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Ĉ km −factorization of is established for even k, where ⊗ denotes the wreath product of graphs. Finally, a simple and short proof for the non-existence of a Ĉ k −factorization of is obtained for odd k.

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Acknowledgments.The author thanks Dr. P. Paulraja for his useful ideas in writing this paper and the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, for its support (Project Grant No. DST/MS/103/99).

Final version received: November 17, 2003

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Muthusamy, A. On Resolvable Multipartite G-Designs. Graphs and Combinatorics 20, 377–382 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-004-0563-2

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