A simple new proof of the fundamental theorem for finite linear spaces

DOI10.1007/S11587-013-0160-XMaRDI QIDQ480398zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Napolitano, Domenico Olanda

Publication date 8 December 2014

Published in Ricerche di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11587-013-0160-x

zbMATH Keywords

incidence geometrylinear spaceprojective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other finite linear geometries (51E26)

Review text

In this paper, the authors give a particularly simple proof of the fundamental theorem of finite linear spaces known as De Bruijn-Erdős theorem: In a finite linear space \((S,L)\) with \(v\) points and \(b\) lines it is \(b \geq v\). Equality holds if and only if \((S,L)\) is either a projective plane or a near pencil.

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