Compact projective planes. With an introduction to octonion geometry

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Dieter Betten, Markus Johannes Stroppel, Hermann Hähl, Theo Grundhöfer, Helmut R. Salzmann, Rainer Löwen

Publication date: 24 April 1996

Published in: De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

projective plane; translation plane; topological projective plane; classical projective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

51A40: Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry

51H10: Topological linear incidence structures

51H25: Geometries with differentiable structure

51N30: Geometry of classical groups

51-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to geometry

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