Proof of the prime power conjecture for projective planes of order 𝑛 with abelian collineation groups of order 𝑛²

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06388-2zbMath1004.51012OpenAlexW1829295197WikidataQ122987049 ScholiaQ122987049MaRDI QIDQ2781308

Aart Blokhuis, Bernhard Schmidt, Dieter Jungnickel

Publication date: 19 March 2002

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-01-06388-2

zbMATH Keywords

abelian collineation groupsprojective planes of order \(n^2\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10)

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