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The non-existence of a certain finite projective plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. W. Erbach
D. W. Erbach
Affiliation:
King's College, Cambridge
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Abstract

It is not known if a projective plane of order 10 can contain ovals, nor if there are any structural restrictions on the ovals it might contain. In this note we take a small step toward understanding the possible embeddings by showing that no plane can contain ovals of a certain type.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 82 , Issue 1 , July 1977 , pp. 5 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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