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Fundamental figures, in four and six dimensions, over GF(2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. L. Edge
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

Extract

Introduction. This paper falls into three parts.

In §§ 1–5 it is explained how, when the base field of the geometry is GF(2), there are figures of n + 2 interlocking polygons in [n], every two polygons sharing a vertex. When n is even these ½(n + 1) (n + 2) vertices lie in an [n − 1], and two of them are conjugate in a certain null polarity when, and only when, they do not belong to the same polygon.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1964

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