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Blocking Sets in Projective Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gary L. Ebert
Gary L. Ebert*
Affiliation:
Texax Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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Blocking sets in projective spaces have been of interest for quite some time, having applications to game theory (see [6; 7]) as well as finite nets and partial spreads (see [5]). In [4] Bruen showed that if B is a blocking set in a projective plane of order n, then

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1978 , pp. 856 - 862
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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