Linear Spaces with Few Lines (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1490) - Softcover

Metsch, Klaus

 
9783540547204: Linear Spaces with Few Lines (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1490)
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ISBN 10: 3540547207 ISBN 13: 9783540547204
Publisher: Springer, 1991

Synopsis

A famous theorem in the theory of linear spaces states that every finite linear space has at least as many lines as points. This result of De Bruijn and Erd|s led to the conjecture that every linear space with "few lines" canbe obtained from a projective plane by changing only a small part of itsstructure. Many results related to this conjecture have been proved in the last twenty years. This monograph surveys the subject and presents several new results, such as the recent proof of the Dowling-Wilsonconjecture. Typical methods used in combinatorics are developed so that the text can be understood without too much background. Thus the book will be of interest to anybody doing combinatorics and can also help other readers to learn the techniques used in this particular field.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540547207
ISBN 13 
9783540547204
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
216

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