saujs Sakarya University Journal of Science 2147-835X Sakarya University 10.16984/saufenbilder.962817 Mathematical Sciences Matematik An Existing Problem for Symmetric Design: Bruck Ryser Chowla Theorem https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-0830 Demirci Akarsu Emek Recep Tayyip Erdogan University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6494-6175 Öztürk Safiye 04 30 2022 26 2 241 248 07 06 2021 02 10 2022 Copyright © 1997, Sakarya University Journal of Science 1997 Sakarya University Journal of Science

Symetric designs are interesting objects of combinatorics, and have some relations with coding theory, difference sets, geometry and finite group theory. They have applications on statistics and design experiments. In the present paper we study an existing problem for symmetric design due to Bruck, Ryser and Chowla and write an algorithm by using their theorem called BRC Theorem.

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