Flocks and partial flocks of hyperbolic quadrics via root systems

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-30

  Bader, Laura ^a   Durante, Nicola ^a,b   Law, Maska ^b   Lunardon, Guglielmo ^a   Penttila, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exceptional flock; Exterior set; Flock; Maximal exterior set; Partial flock; Rectangle condition; Root system

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244432612     PISSN: 09259899     EISSN: 15729192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020878313625     Document Type: Article

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