On Veldkamp lines

Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-316

  Shult, Ernest ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric hyperplanes; Projective embeddings; Veldkamp spaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031091589     PISSN: 13701444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.36045/bbms/1105731662     Document Type: Article

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