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
Received 25 May 1981

Abstract

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