Title: Finite geometry and combinatorics : the second international conference at Deinze /
Authors: Beutelspacher, Albrecht.; Clerck, Frank de.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Finite geometries Congresses.
Abstract: "Finite Geometry and Combinatorics is the art of counting any phenomena that can be described by a diagram. Everyday life is full of applications: from telephones to compact disc players, from the transmission of confidential information to the codes on any item on supermarket shelves."--BOOK JACKET. "This is a collection of 35 articles on covering topics such as finite projective spaces, generalised polygons, strongly regular graphs, diagram geometries and polar spaces."--BOOK JACKET. "Included here are articles from many of the leading practitioners in the field, including, for the first time, several distinguished Russian mathematicians. Many of the papers contain important new results, and the growing use of computer algebra packages in this area is also demonstrated."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Generalized hexagons and BLT-sets / L. Bader, G. Lundardon -- Orthogonally divergent spreads of Hermitian curves / R.D. Baker, G.L. Ebert, G. Korchmáros, T. Szönyi -- Lifts of nuclei in finite projective spaces / A. Blokhuis, F. Mazzocca -- Large minimal blocking sets, strong representative systems, and partial unitals / A. Blokhuis, K. Metsch -- The complement of a geometric hyperplane in a generalized polygon is usually connected / A.E. Brouwer -- Locally co-Heawood graphs / A.E. Brouwer, D.G. Fon-der-Flaass, S.V. Shpectorov -- A theorem of Parmentier characterizing projective spaces by polarities / F. Buekenhout -- Geometries with diagram LP* / F. Buekenhout, O.H. King -- Remarks on finite generalized hexagons and octagons with a point-transitive automorphism group / F. Guekenhout, H. van Maldeghem -- Block-transitive t-designs, II: large t / P.J. Cameron, C.E. Praeger -- Generalized Fischer spaces / H. Cuypers --^