Rank \(n\) geometries with affine hyperplanes and dual affine point residues (Q1180805)

The author contains residually connected rank \(n\geq 4\) incidence geometries with Buekenhout diagram of type \((Af,\dots,Af^*)\), i.e. a linear diagram with \(n\) nodes in which the first stroke is an affine plane and the last a dual affine plane. All other strokes are projective planes. The obvious examples of geometries with such a Buekenhout diagram are the following. Consider a projective space \(P\) of dimension \(n\), and fix a point and hyperplane of the projective space \(P\). Now consider the geometry of all subspaces of \(P\) that do not contain the point, nor are contained in the hyperplane, where incidence is inherited from \(P\). The author extends the main result of \textit{C. Lefèvre-Percsy} and the author [Discrete Math. 84, No. 2, 161-167 (1990; Zbl 0712.51006)] and \textit{C. Levèvre-Percsy} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 55, No. 1, 133-139 (1990; Zbl 0705.51005)], where the rank 3 case is considered, and shows that any geometry of type \((Af,\dots,Af^*)\) of rank at least 4, in which two points are on at most one line is isomorphic to one of the geometries described above.