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Combinatorial Properties of Matrices of Zeros and Ones

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This paper is concerned with a matrix A of m rows and n columns, all of whose entries are 0’s and 1’s. Let the sum of row i of A be denoted by r i (i = 1, ... , m) and let the sum of column i of A be denoted by S i (i = 1, ... ,n).

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Ryser, H.J. (2009). Combinatorial Properties of Matrices of Zeros and Ones. In: Gessel, I., Rota, GC. (eds) Classic Papers in Combinatorics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4842-8_18

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