Abstract
We find necessary conditions that should be imposed on a number n for the existence of an arbitrary configuration in at least one finite projective plane of order n.
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Kiev University, Kiev. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 1345–1359, October, 1997.
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Medvedev, V.K. Configurations in finite projective planes. Ukr Math J 49, 1516–1532 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487438
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487438