On finite h-semiaffine planes (Q793035)

An h-semiaffine plane (h a positive integer) is a linear space such that for any non-incident point-line pair (p,L) there are either h or h-1 lines through p which have no point in common with L. After giving a general lemma describing the structure of finite h-semiaffine planes with \(h\geq 2\), the authors are able to characterize finite 3-semiaffine planes of order n in which either \(n\geq 7\) or there exist two disjoint parallel classes of lines with n-1 points on each of these lines: the resulting structure is either the complement of a triangle in a finite projective plane of order n or a (hypothetic) 2-(46,6,1) design. Further it is shown that if \(h\geq 4\) then there exist at most finitely many finite h- semiaffine planes and a list of all admissible parameter sets for finite 4-semiaffine planes is given.