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Quaternion Hermitian Planes

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The quaternion hermitian planes are defined, and are characterized by certain groups of automorphisms. For this purpose, characterizations of locally compact connected translation planes (in the context of stable planes) and compact connected projective desarguesian planes are given.

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Stroppel, M. Quaternion Hermitian Planes. Results. Math. 23, 387–397 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322312

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