A connection between Fano configurations and Minkowski planes of odd order

✍ Scribed by Jan Jakóbowski

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 238 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-5755
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00182122

✦ Synopsis

It is shown in this paper that a pair of points contained in a Fano configuration in a projective plane of odd order cannot induce a Minkowski plane. From this result we derive that no pair of points in the Hughes plane of order 9 can induce a Minkowski plane.