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Planes in which every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane

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Desarguesian projective planes of square order are characterized by the property that every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    William M. Kantor

  2. Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Tim Penttila

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This is one of several papers published together in Designs, Codes and Cryptography on the special topic: “Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics”.

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Kantor, W.M., Penttila, T. Planes in which every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 65, 157–161 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-011-9567-0

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