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Partial Spreads and Replaceable Nets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. Bruen
A. Bruen*
Affiliation:
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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A blocking set S in a projective plane Π is a subset of the points of Π such that every line of Π contains at least one point of S and at least one point not in S. In previous papers [5; 6], we have shown that if Π is finite of order n, then n + √n + 1 ≦ |S| ≦ n2 – √n (see [6, Theorem 3.9]), where |S| stands for the number of points of S. This work is concerned with some applications of the above result to nets and partial spreads, and with some examples of partial spreads which give rise to unimbeddable nets of small deficiency.

In the next section we re-prove a well known result of Bruck which states that if N is a replaceable net of order n and degree k then k ≧ √n + 1, and show how this bound can be improved if n = 7, 8, or 11.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 381 - 391
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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