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Uniqueness of some cyclic projective planes

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For n < 41 and for \({{n \in }}\) {121, 125, 128, 169, 256, 1024}, every cyclic projective plane of order n is desarguesian.

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    Yiwei Huang & Bernhard Schmidt

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Huang, Y., Schmidt, B. Uniqueness of some cyclic projective planes. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 50, 253–266 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-008-9229-z

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