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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Near polygons were introduced about 25 years ago and studied intensively in the 1980s. In recent years the subject has regained interest. This monograph gives an extensive overview of the basic theory of general near polygons.
The first part of the book includes a discussion of the classes of dense near polygons, regular near polygons, and glued near polygons. Also valuations, one of the most important tools for classifying dense near polygons, are treated in detail. The second part of the book discusses the classification of dense near polygons with three points per line.
The book is self-contained and almost all theorems are accompanied with proofs. Several new results are presented. Many known results occur in a more general form and the proofs are often more streamlined than their original versions. The volume is aimed at advanced graduate students and researchers in the fields of combinatorics and finite geometry.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Bart Bruyn
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Near Polygons
Authors: Bart Bruyn
Series Title: Frontiers in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7553-9
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-7552-2Published: 19 April 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-7553-9Published: 11 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1660-8046
Series E-ISSN: 1660-8054
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Topics: Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures, Combinatorics