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Some results on configurations realizing minimum blocking sets of a finite projective plane are obtained by introducing a suitable “attraction” property.
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Dedicated to Professor M. Scafati Tallini on the occasion of her 65th birthday
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Innamorati, S., Zuanni, F. Minimum blocking configurations. J Geom 55, 86–98 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01223035
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