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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

A Higman-Haemers Inequality for Thick Regular Near Polygons

Akira Hiraki and Jack Koolen

DOI: 10.1023/B:JACO.0000047283.91464.3c

Abstract

In this note we will generalize the Higman-Haemers inequalities for generalized polygons to thick regular near polygons.

Pages: 213–218

Keywords: regular near polygon; distance-regular graph

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