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Is the group of translations of an affine plane always commutative?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Dil{Dil}\DeclareMathOperator\Trans{Trans}\DeclareMathOperator\Col{Col}$An affine plane is a set of points $X$ endowed with a family $\mathcal L$ of subsets of $X$, called lines, ...
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Classification of Moufang planes of real dimension 16
Incidence geometry is not really area of expertise so I'm asking here: are all Moufang planes of 16 dimension already classified?
I'm not just interested in the compact ones. Is there already a ...
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Intersection of pencils in $\mathcal{R}^2$
Consider $9n$ pencils through non-collinear points $p_1, \ldots , p_{9n}$ in $R^2$ each consisting of at most $n$ concurrent lines. Define the intersection $S$ of these pencils to be the set of points ...
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