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A note on k-3 caps in three-dimensional Galois space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Dennis Bramwell
Dennis Bramwell
Affiliation:
University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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A k-3 cap in a three-dimensional Galois space, S3,q, is a set of k points, of which some 3, but no 4 are collinear. It is shown in (2) that for q ≥ 4.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , July 1979 , pp. 21 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1979

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