Projective Geometries Over Finite Fields

Projective Geometries Over Finite Fields PDF Author: James William Peter Hirschfeld
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198502951
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 555

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Book Description
I. Introduction 1. Finite fields 2. Projective spaces and algebraic varieties II. Elementary general properties 3. Subspaces 4. Partitions 5. Canonical forms for varieties and polarities III. The line and the plane 6. The line 7. First properties of the plane 8. Ovals 9. Arithmetic of arcs of degree two 10. Arcs in ovals 11. Cubic curves 12. Arcs of higher degree 13. Blocking sets 14. Small planes Appendix Notation References.