Existence of Simple OA_λ(3,5,v)′s

An orthogonal array of strength t,degree k,order v and index λ,denoted by OAλ(t,k,v),is a λvt× k array on a v symbol set such that each λvt× t subarray contains each t-tuple exactly λ times.An OAλ(t,k,v) is called simple and denoted by SOAλ(t,k,v)if it contains no repeated rows.In this paper,it is proved that the necessary conditions for the existence of an SOAλ(3,5,v) with λ≥ 2 are also sufficient with possible exceptions where v = 6 and λ∈ {3,7,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,29,33}.