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We prove that a projective Grassmannian can be recovered from the complement of one of its Grassmann substructures. Even more, the underlying projective space with the interval of its distinguished subspaces can be recovered.
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Żynel, M. Complements of Grassmann substructures in projective Grassmannians. Aequat. Math. 88, 81–96 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-013-0210-1
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