International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 5 (1982), Issue 4, Pages 823-825
doi:10.1155/S0161171282000775

The chromatic index of cyclic Steiner 2-designs

Charles J. Colbourn and Marlene J. Colbourn

Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 0W0, Canada

Abstract

The number of colours needed to colour the blocks of a cyclic Steiner 2-design S(2,k,v) is at most v.