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Projective planes over non-division rings
Is there a "right" notion of a projective plane over a general (unital, non-division) ring?
Let me explain what type of object I am looking for. Let $R$ be an arbitrary (not necessarily ...
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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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Is every finite plane with a characteristic Desarguesian?
By a projective plane I understand a mathematical structure $(X,\mathcal L)$ consisting of a set $X$ of points and a family $\mathcal L$ of subsets of $X$, called lines such that the following four ...
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Are quadruples $abcd$ and $dcba$ always projectively equivalent in any projective plane?
It is well-known that for every line $L$ in a Pappian projective plane (i.e., a projective plane over a field) and any distinct points $a,b,c,d\in L$ the quadruples $(a,b,c,d)$ and $(d,c,b,a)$ are ...
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Baer involutions fixing the same plane
Let $\mathbf{PG}(2,q^2)$ be the finite projective plane defined over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q^2}$. Then for each quadrangle, there is precisely one involution fixing it pointwise, and hence ...
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Anti-flag transitive affine planes
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an axiomatic affine plane. First let $\mathcal{A}$ be finite.
Suppose that the automorphism group of $\mathcal{A}$ acts transitively on nonincident point-line pairs (that is, on ...
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Infinite-dimensional quasifields
In their seminal paper on translation planes (The Construction of Translation Planes from Projective Spaces, Journal of Algebra 1:85-102, 1964, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(64)90010-9), Bruck and ...
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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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An algebraic characterization of dual translation projective planes
It is well-known that translation projective planes are coordinatized by quasifields. More precisely, a projective plane is translation if and only if it has a ternary-ring $R$ which is linear, the ...
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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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What is $(C, D, \delta, \gamma)$ and $(C, \delta; D, \gamma)$ Desarguesian?
A projective plane is $(C, \gamma)$-Desarguesian if for any 2 triangles $A_1 B_1 C_1, A_2 B_2 C_2$ in perspective from $C$ (which means $C \in A_1 A_2, B_1 B_2, C_1 C_2$) such that $A_1 B_1 \cap A_2 ...
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