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We present three families of multiple blocking sets in Desarguesian projective planes of even characteristic. The first and the third construction apply to any translation hyperoval. The second construction applies to arbitrary hyperovals.
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This is one of several papers published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography comprising the “Special Issue on Finite Geometries”.
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Betten, A., Cheon, E.J., Kim, S.J. et al. Three families of multiple blocking sets in Desarguesian projective planes of even order. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 68, 49–59 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-012-9634-1
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