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Point-Reflection Geometries, Geometric K-Loops and Unitary Geometries

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There are reflection geometries to which correspond K- loops (P,+,F) with an incidence fibration F (= incidence partition), where F consists of proper subloops which are not groups. Such examples are derived from certain unitary geometries.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Cattolica, via Trieste 17, I-25121, Brescia

    Elisabetta Gabrieli

  2. Mathematisches Institut, Technische Universität München, D-80290, München

    Elisabetta Gabrieli & Helmut Karzel

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Gabrieli, E., Karzel, H. Point-Reflection Geometries, Geometric K-Loops and Unitary Geometries. Results. Math. 32, 66–72 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03322525

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