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Which finite projective planes can have a symmetric incidence matrix?

As the title says. Which finite projective planes admit a symmetric incidence matrix? I am not an expert in the field at all, but I consulted with one. He claimed that $PG(2, \mathbb F_q)$ can always ...
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Does every $C_4$-free bipartite graph lies in some finite projective plane?

A projective plane $Π$ is a 3-tuple $(P,L,I)$ where $P$ and $L$ are sets, and $I$ is a relation between $P$ and $L$, such that: For every two elements $p_1$, $p_2\in P$, there exists a unique ...
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Are bipartite Moore graphs Hamiltonian?

This is motivated by a computer-generated conjecture that bipartite distance-regular graphs are hamiltonian. I decided to check the case of Moore graphs first. The cycles and complete bipartite graphs ...
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$\left< 15\right>^7/15$-womcode construction

In the article Womcodes constructed with projective geometries Frans Merkx constructed several good wom-codes (write-once memory codes, see How to reuse a "write-once" memory by Rivest & Shamir ...
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Is there literature on finite geometries with ordered lines?

A difference between finite geometries and (e.g.) Euclidean space is that "lines" in finite geometries are unordered subsets of the universe, while "lines" in Euclidean space are ordered subsets of ...
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Who constructed the projective plane of order $4$ from $K_6$?

I have been trying to hunt down the original reference for the construction of the projective plane of order $4$ from the complete graph on $6$ vertices. The reference I have at hand are Cameron and ...
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Applications of finite Bolyai-Lobachevsky planes

Google scholar gives more than 200 articles comcerning finite Bolyai-Lobachevsky (BL) planes. Usually they devoted to construction of such objects (axioms may be different). Are their any ...
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