Problems related to a de Bruijn-Erdös theorem (Q943846)

The de Bruijn-Erdös theorem referred to in the title of this paper states that every set of \(n\) noncollinear points in the plane determines at least \(n\) lines. The authors investigate a generalization of this theorem in the framework of metric spaces, where lines have to be defined in a suitable way. This leads to some extremal combinatorial problems, and the authors provide partial results.