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Design theory is the subfield of combinatorics concerning the existence and construction of highly symmetric arrangements. Finite projective planes, latin squares, and Steiner triple systems are examples of designs.

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Reference Request: "Resolutions" of $K_n$ for $n$ odd

I might be missing something, but it looks like you want a partition of the edges of $K_n$, odd $n$, into a set of subgraphs which are regular of degree 2. That's called a 2-factorization. It can be …
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Latin squares with one cycle type?

There are also "pan-Hamiltonian" Latin squares, see Perfect Factorisations of Bipartite Graphs and Latin Squares Without Proper Subrectangles by I. M. Wanless, Electronic J. Combin. 6 (1999), R9.
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Isomorphism testing in STS(13)

Take the 26-vertex graphs whose vertices are the blocks and where two vertices are joined by an edge if the corresponding blocks have a vertex in common. These two graphs differ in many easily measur …
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For which sets of $(n, m, k)$ does there exist an edge-labelling (using $k$ labels) on $K_n$...

This is a standard problem in design theory. A Steiner system $S(t, k, v)$ is a pair $(X, B)$, where $X$ is a $v$-element set and $B$ is a set of $k$-subsets of $X$, called blocks, with the property …
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