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Among the known finite Minkowski planes we determine an infinite family of examples admitting a partition of the set of blocks into equivalence classes, each of which in turn partitions the point set; in particular non-miquelian finite Minkowski planes with this property exist.
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work done within the activity of GNSAGA of CNR and supported by the Italian Ministry of Public Education
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Bonisoli, A. On resolvable finite Minkowski planes. J Geom 36, 1–7 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01231018
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