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Paper   IPM / M / 2310
School of Mathematics
  Title:   On a class of twin balanced incomplete block designs
  Author(s): 
1.  V. D. Tonchev
2.  H. Kharaghani
  Status:   In Proceedings
  Proceeding: Codes and Designs
  Year:  2002
  Pages:   157-164
  Editor:  K.T. Arasu and A. Seress, eds.
  Publisher(s):   de Gruyter, New York
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
A two-parameter family of 2-(4n2,n(2n−1),m(n−1)) designs are constructed starting from a certain block matrix with 2n by 2m sub-matrices, and a balanced generalized weighing matrix over an appropriate cyclic group. The special case n=m corresponds to a construction of symmetric 2-designs from Hadamard matrices of Bush type described in [10]. If 2m and 2n are the orders of Hadamard matrices, the construction yields Hadamard matrices of Bush type. Furthermore, if either 2n−1 or 2n+1 is a prime power, the designs can be expanded to infinitely many new designs by using known balanced generalized weighing matrices.

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