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The concept of full points of abstract unitals has been introduced by Korchmáros, Siciliano and Szőnyi as a tool for the study of projective embeddings of abstract unitals. In this paper we give a detailed description of the combinatorial and geometric structure of the sets of full points in abstract unitals of finite order.
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Appendix A: Unital of order 4 with non-cyclic embedded dual 3-net
Appendix A: Unital of order 4 with non-cyclic embedded dual 3-net
The output of the last command is “S5”, showing that the group of perspectivities is not cyclic.
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Mezőfi, D., Nagy, G.P. On the geometry of full points of abstract unitals. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 87, 2967–2978 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-019-00658-1
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