In this paper we show that blocking sets of cardinality less than 3(q Ο© 1)/2 (q Ο p n ) in Desarguesian projective planes intersect every line in 1 modulo p points. It is also shown that the cardinality of a blocking set must lie in a few relatively short intervals. This is similar to previous resul
Conic blocking sets in Desarguesian projective planes
β Scribed by Leanne D. Holder
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2468
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