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Factorizations of complete multipartite hypergraphs. (English) Zbl 1351.05160
Summary: In a mathematics workshop with $$m n$$ mathematicians from $$n$$ different areas, each area consisting of $$m$$ mathematicians, we want to create a collaboration network. For this purpose, we would like to schedule daily meetings between groups of size three, so that (i) two people of the same area meet one person of another area, (ii) each person has exactly $$r$$ meeting(s) each day, and (iii) each pair of people of the same area have exactly $$\lambda$$ meeting(s) with each person of another area by the end of the workshop. Using hypergraph amalgamation-detachment, we prove a more general theorem. In particular we show that above meetings can be scheduled if: $$3 \mid r m$$, $$2 \mid rnm$$ and $$r \mid 3\lambda(n-1) \binom{m}{2}$$. This result can be viewed as an analogue of Baranyai’s theorem on factorizations of complete multipartite hypergraphs.
##### MSC:
 05C65 Hypergraphs 05C70 Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.)
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