%0 Journal Article
%T New lower bounds for the number of blocks in balanced incomplete block designs
%A Muhammad Ali Khan
%J Mathematics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%X Bose proved the inequality $b\geq v+r-1$ for resolvable balanced incomplete block designs (RBIBDs) and Kageyama improved it for RBIBDs which are not affine resolvable. In this note we prove a new lower bound on the number of blocks $b$ that holds for all BIBDs. We further prove that for a significantly large number of BIBDs our bound is tighter than the bounds given by the inequalities of Bose and Kageyama.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2282v2