Blocking Sets and Skew Subspaces of Projective Space

DOI10.4153/CJM-1980-048-8zbMath0445.51014OpenAlexW2324635105MaRDI QIDQ3889692

Aiden A. Bruen

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1980-048-8

zbMATH Keywords

blocking setsBaer subplanemaximal partial spread of projective spaces of odd dimension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40)

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