Characterizations of buekenhout-metz unitals

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-42

  Casse, L R A ^a   O'Keefe, Christine M ^a   Penttila, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baer sublines; Buekenhout Metz unitals; Classical unitals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011631725     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00181524     Document Type: Article

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