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Partitioning projective planes into arcs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Barbu C. Kestenband
Barbu C. Kestenband
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Department of Mathematics, New York Institute of Technology, New York 11568, U.S.A.
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We show how to partition certain classes of finite projective planes into equicardinal arcs. Several partitions of this kind are to be found in the recent literature and they have aroused a certain amount of interest on two counts, as we shall shortly see.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 3 , November 1988 , pp. 435 - 440
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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