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Generalized Polygons is the first book to cover, in a coherent manner, the theory of polygons from scratch. In particular, it fills elementary gaps in the literature and gives an up-to-date account of current research in this area, including most proofs, which are often unified and streamlined in co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maldeghem, H. van
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel ; New York : Springer Basel, [2011]
Edition:Reprint of the 1998 edition.
Series:Modern Birkhäuser classics.
Subjects:
Generalized polygons.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Basic Concepts and Results
  • Classical Polygons
  • Coordinatization and Further Examples
  • Homomorphisms and Automorphism Groups
  • The Moufang Condition
  • Characterizations
  • Ovoids, Spreads and Self-Dual Polygons
  • Projectivities and Projective Embeddings
  • Topological Polygons.