How to draw a hexagon (Q1297439)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1321799
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    How to draw a hexagon
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1321799

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      How to draw a hexagon (English)
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      5 July 2000
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      In recent years, \textit{Burkhard Polster} championed the idea of producing ``nice'' pictures representing finite geometries in the Euclidean plane [cf. his beautiful `A geometrical picture book' published by Springer (New York) in (1998; Zbl 0914.51001)]. In the same spirit, the present paper presents nice pictures for the two generalized hexagons with parameters 2 (which are dual to each other and related to the Chevalley group \(G_2(2))\). The key idea which makes it possible to produce a pleasing representation is the use of an automorphism of order 7.
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      generalized hexagons
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