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We show that a Z-cyclic triplewhist tournament on p players with three-person property, briefly 3PTWh(p), exists for any prime p≡ 1 (mod 4) with the only exceptions of p=5,13,17.
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Feng, T., Chang, Y. Existence of Z-cyclic 3PTWh (p) for any Prime p≡ 1 (mod 4). Des Codes Crypt 39, 39–49 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-005-2327-2
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