Existentially closed BIBD block-intersection graphs
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Existentially closed BIBD block-intersection graphs
zbMATH Open document ID: 1158.05011
author: Neil A. McKay
author: David A. Pike
published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
publication date: 2009-04-07T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/129701
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review text: Summary: A graph \(G\) with vertex set \(V\) is said to be \(n\)-existentially closed if, for every \(S \subset V\) with \(|S|=n\) and every \(T \subseteq S\), there exists a vertex \(x \in V-S\) such that \(x\) is adjacent to each vertex of \(T\) but is adjacent to no vertex of \(S-T\). Given a combinatorial design \({\mathcal D}\) with block set \({\mathcal B}\), its block-intersection graph \(G_{\mathcal D}\) is the graph having vertex set \({\mathcal B}\) such that two vertices \(b_1\) and \(b_2\) are adjacent if and only if \(b_1\) and \(b_2\) have non-empty intersection. In this paper we study BIBDs (balanced incomplete block designs) and when their block-intersection graphs are \(n\)-existentially closed. We characterise the BIBDs with block size \(k \geq 3\) and index \(\lambda=1\) that have 2-e.c.\ block-intersection graphs and establish bounds on the parameters of BIBDs with index \(\lambda=1\) that are \(n\)-e.c.\ where \(n \geq 3\). For \(\lambda \geq 2\) and \(n \geq 2\), we prove that only simple \(\lambda\)-fold designs can have \(n\)-e.c.\ block-intersection graphs. In the case of \(\lambda\)-fold triple systems we show that \(n \geq 3\) is impossible, and we determine which 2-fold triple systems (i.e., BIBDs with \(k=3\) and \(\lambda=2\)) have 2-e.c.\ block-intersection graphs.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05B05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C62
zbMATH DE Number: 5540848
zbMATH Keywords: block designs
zbMATH Keywords: block-intersection graphs
zbMATH Keywords: existentially closed graphs
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5540848