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On the number of designs with affine parameters

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A construction is described that yields improved lower bounds for the numbers of 2-designs and resolvable 2-designs with the parameters of AG d (n, q).

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  1. Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Australia

    D. M. Donovan

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    M. J. Grannell

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Donovan, D.M., Grannell, M.J. On the number of designs with affine parameters. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 63, 15–27 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-011-9528-7

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