Affine geometry of modules over a ring with invariant basis number (Q941911)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5319723
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Affine geometry of modules over a ring with invariant basis number
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5319723

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    Affine geometry of modules over a ring with invariant basis number (English)
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    2 September 2008
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    The fundamental theorem of affine geometry, characterizing parallelism-preserving collineations as semilinear isomorphisms, is proved for several ring geometries, defined via a free \(R\)-module over IB-rings (rings \(R\) for which in any free \(R\)-module of any rank \(n < \infty\) every generating set of \(n\) elements is a basis), in which a nontransitive parallelism relation is defined. The treatment is purely algebraic.
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    affine ring geometry
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    fundamental theorem of affine geometry
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    modules over IBN-rings
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    projective geometry
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    complete lattice
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    collineation
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