Two existence results between an affine resolvable SRGD design and a difference scheme

Abstract

The existence of affine resolvable block designs has been discussed since 1942 in the literature (cf. Bose (1942), Clatworthy (1973), Raghavarao (1988)). Kadowaki and Kageyama (2009, 2010, 2012) obtained a number of results on combinatorics for the existence of an affine resolvable SRGD design. In this paper, a new existence result is shown as a generalization of Theorem 3.3.3 given in Kadowaki and Kageyama (2009, 2010). Furthermore, another existence result is shown as a conditional converse of Theorem 3.3.3 and also a generalization of Theorem 3.3.4, both theorems given in Kadowaki and Kageyama (2009, 2010).