Semiaffine stable planes
An incidence plane \((P, \mathcal{L})\) is called \textit{semiaffine} if for every line \(L\in\mathcal{L}\) and every point \(p\in P\setminus L\) there exists at most one line disjoint from \(L\) containing \(p\). If a semiaffine plane \((P, \mathcal{L})\) is finite then it is only either (1) an affine plane (2) a projective plane (3) a punctured projective plane, or (4) a projective plane where a line and all its points except one have been removed [\textit{P. Dembowski}, Arch. Math. 13, 120--131 (1962; Zbl 0135.39304)]. In the infinite case many differing examples have been constructed [loc. cit.].\N\NThe authors consider semiaffine locally compact stable planes of positive topological dimension, and prove (Theorem 2.7) that only the cases (1), (2) or (3) above may occur. For their proof they thoroughly examine the behaviour of \textit{affine} lines \(L\) (i.e. there is a unique parallel through any \(p\in P\setminus L\)), and in particular of \textit{biaffine} lines, i.e. affine lines \(L\) all of whose parallels are also affine. Semiaffinity is an essential assumption which is exhibited by (2.2) with an example of a non-embeddable stable plane [\textit{R. Löwen}, Geom. Dedicata 10, 283--315 (1981; Zbl 0463.51016)]. Topological assumptions maybe be replaced by finiteness [Dembowski, loc. cit.], this and open problems in the infinite discrete case are discussed finally.
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