The Sylvester-Gallai theorem, colourings and algebra

DOI10.1016/j.disc.2007.12.027zbMath1177.05023arXivmath/0606131MaRDI QIDQ998535

Lou M. Pretorius, Konrad J. Swanepoel

Publication date: 28 January 2009

Published in: Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606131

zbMATH Keywords

finite geometry; combinatorial geometry; Sylvester-Gallai theorem; Motzkin-Rabin theorem; proper finite linear space; two-colouring of a finite linear space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05B35: Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices

51A30: Desarguesian and Pappian geometries

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