Triple systems

Author(s)

• Colbourn, Charles J.
• Rosa, Alexander

Bibliographic Information

Triple systems

Charles J. Colbourn and Alexander Rosa

（Oxford mathematical monographs）

Clarendon Press, 1999

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-549) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Triple systems are among the simplest combinatorial designs, and are a natural generalization of graphs. They have connections with geometry, algebra, group theory, finite fields, and cyclotomy; they have applications in coding theory, cryptography, computer science, and statistics. Triple systems provide in many cases the prototype for deep results in combinatorial design theory; this design theory is permeated by problems that were first understood in the context of triple systems and then generalized. Such a rich set of connections has made the study of triple systems an extensive, but sometimes disjointed, field of combinatorics. This book attempts to survey current knowledge on the subject, to gather together common themes, and to provide an accurate portrait of the huge variety of problems and results. Representative samples of the major syles of proof technique are included, as is a comprehensive bibliography.

Table of Contents

• Historical introduction
• 1. Design-theoretic fundamentals
• 2. Existence: direct methods
• 3. Existence:recursive methods
• 4. Isomorphism and invariants
• 5. Enumeration
• 6. Subsystems and holes
• 7. Automorphisms I: small groups
• 8. Automorphisms II: large groups
• 9. Leaves and partial tripls systems
• 10. Excesses and coverings
• 11. Embedding and its variants
• 12. Neighbourhoods
• 13. Configurations
• 14. Intersections
• 15. Large sets and partitions
• 16. Support sizes
• 17. Independent sets
• 18. Chromatic number
• 19. Chromatic index and resolvability
• 20. Orthogonal resolutions
• 21. Nested and derived triple systems
• 22. Decomposability
• 23. Directed triple systems
• 24. Mendelsohn triple systems
• Bibliographies
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA41669439
• ISBN:
  • 0198535767
• LCCN: 98053085
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 560 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA166.3
  • DC21 : 511/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Steiner systems
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00007466