Abstract
One of the two Buekenhout-Shult theorems for polar spaces required a finite rank assumption. Here we get rid of that restriction. Similarly, the polar spaces of possibly infinite rank having some line of two points are classified.
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Buekenhout, F. On the foundations of polar geometry, II. Geom Dedicata 33, 21–26 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147597
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