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Cohen, A.M. (1986). Point-line characterizations of buildings. In: Rosati, L.A. (eds) Buildings and the Geometry of Diagrams. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075515
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