University of Delaware
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Wednesday, April 22, 4 pm, 436 Ewing Hall

A remark on a construction of Grundhöfer

Julia Brown, York University (Canada)

We consider a large class of ``natural" generalizations of Grundhöfer's synthetic definition of incidence in Figueroa planes. We determine which of these generalized definitions produce projective planes and which do not. We show that those few which do produce projective planes produce only Pappian planes or Figueroa planes.