Abstract
A (2,3)-packing on X is a pair (X,[InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.]), where [InlineMediaObject not available: see fulltext.] is a set of 3-subsets (called blocks) of X, such that any pair of distinct points from X occurs together in at most one block. For a (6k+5)-set X, an optimal partition of triples (denoted by OPT(6k+5)) is a set of 6k+3 optimal (2,3)-packings and a (2,3)-packing of size 8k+4 on X. Etzion conjectured that there exists an OPT(6k+5) for any positive integer k. In this paper, we construct such a system for any k?1. This complete solution is based on the known existence results of S(3,4,v)s by Hanani and that of special S(3,{4,6},6m)s by Mills. Partitionable candelabra systems also play an important role together with an OPT(11) and a holey OPT(11).
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