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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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Projective Plane of Order 12
I asked this question on the new Theoretical Computer Science "overflow" site, and commenters suggested I ask it here. That question is here, and it contains additional links, which I doubt I can ...
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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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Anti-flag transitive projective planes
Let $\Gamma$ be an axiomatic projective plane, and suppose its automorphism group acts transitively on the anti-flags (the point-line pairs $(u,V)$ such that $u$ is not incident with $V$).
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Combinatorics of projective planes over commutative rings
An axiomatic projective plane is a point-line incidence structure with the following axioms:
any two distinct points are collinear (via a unique line);
any two distinct lines meet in a unique point;
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Projective planes over algebraically closed fields
Suppose I am given a projective plane $P \cong \mathbb{P}^2(k)$ over a (commutative) field $k$.
With "projective plane," I mean the point-line geometry (and not, for instance, the scheme): $...
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Subplanes of Finite Projective Planes
If a finite projective plane $\pi_1$ of order $m$ contains, as a sub plane, a
finite projective plane $\pi_2$ of order $n$, then $m \geq n^2$ with equality holding only in the case of a Baer sub plane....
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Generalized geometries
Let $S$ be a non-empty set. A geometry of type $n$ for $n\geq 1$
on $S$ (consisting of at least $n$ elements) is a set ${\mathfrak P}\subseteq
{\mathcal P}(S)$ such that
all members of $\mathfrak P$ ...
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