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Kite-group Divisible Designs of Type gtu1

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Necessary and sufficient conditions are given to the existence for kite-group divisible designs of type gtu1.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, P. R. China

    Haiyan Wang & Yanxun Chang

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Research supported by NSFC Grant 10371002.

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Wang, H., Chang, Y. Kite-group Divisible Designs of Type gtu1. Graphs and Combinatorics 22, 545–571 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-006-0681-0

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