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ALGEBRAIC
COMBINATORICS

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

Covering all points except one

A. Blokhuis , A.E. Brouwer2 and T. Szönyi3

2A. Blokhuis

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-009-0204-1

Abstract

In many point-line geometries, to cover all points except one, more lines are needed than to cover all points. Bounds can be given by looking at the dimension of the space of functions induced by polynomials of bounded degree.

Pages: 59–66

Keywords: keywords finite geometry; covering; blocking set

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