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Adjoints of a Geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alan L. C. Cheung
Alan L. C. Cheung*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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To give a geometric interpretation to the inverted incidence relation between the flats of a geometry has for years been a tempting idea in combinatorial geometries [1]. If G is a geometric lattice, the inverted lattice G' is not necessarily geometric.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1974 , pp. 363 - 365
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

References

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