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Batten and Beutelspacher have characterized Finite Linear Spaces with lines of size n,n + 1 and n + 2, and with v ≤ (n + 1)2for n ≥ 22, and some of the cases for smaller n. In this article, using the structuredapproach we presented in our earlier article [8], we complete this characterization for smalln.
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Greig, M. Finite Linear Spaces II. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 27, 25–47 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016594301340
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