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Transformation of designs and other incidence structures

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We introduce a procedure which ‘transforms’ a given incidence structure into another one, provided certain conditions are met.

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  1. Dipartimnto di Matematica, via Campi 213/B, I-41100, Modena, Italy

    Pasquale Quattrocchi

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, viale Morgagni 67/a, I-50134, Firenze, Italy

    Luigi Antonio Rosati

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Work performed under the auspices of GNSAGA of CNR supported by the 40% and 60% grants of MURST.

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Quattrocchi, P., Rosati, L.A. Transformation of designs and other incidence structures. Geom Dedicata 44, 233–240 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00182951

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