On the uniqueness of near polygons with three points on every line
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the uniqueness of near polygons with three points on every line
zbMATH Open document ID: 1025.51015
author: Bart De Bruyn
published in: European Journal of Combinatorics
publication date: 2003-03-18T00:00:00Z
review text: The author presents a criterion to decide whether two near \(2d\)-gons (A) with three points per line, (B) such that every two non collinear points which are both collinear with at least one point are collinear with at least two points, and (C) containing a big geodesically closed sub-near \(2(d-1)\)-gon \({\mathcal H}\), are isomorphic (\({\mathcal H}\) is big if every point outside \({\mathcal H}\) is collinear with a (unique) point of \({\mathcal H}\)). The criterion basically says that the incidence structure consisting of the lines of some near \(2d\)-gon satisfying (A), (B) and (C) meeting \({\mathcal H}\) in one point, and the \(3\times 3\) grids which have one line in common with \({\mathcal H}\) (with natural incidence relation) determines the near \(2d\)-gon unambiguously. This is a very beautiful result, since most of the known near polygons that satisfy (A) and (B) also satisfy (C). The author applies this criterion to two specific near hexagons to give a geometric prove of their uniqueness (but the uniqueness itself was previously known).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51E26
zbMATH DE Number: 1884139
zbMATH Keywords: near hexagons
zbMATH Keywords: near polygons
reviewed by: Hendrik Van Maldeghem
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: eujc.2002.0585
OpenAlex ID: W2005920836
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DOI: 10.1006/EUJC.2002.0585
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1884139