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We describe a connection between a family of tetrahedrally closed spherical sets in Euclidean spaces and a family of point-line geometries called near polygons.
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In this paper the word ‘tetrahedron’ will be used as a shortening for a regular tetrahedron inscribed in the unit sphere.
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De Bruyn, B. Some notes on tetrahedrally closed spherical sets in Euclidean spaces. Proc Math Sci 129, 15 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12044-019-0466-z
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