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Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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An easier proof of the maximal arcs conjecture
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3377-3380 Request permission

Abstract:

It was a long-standing conjecture in finite geometry that a Desarguesian plane of odd order contains no maximal arcs. A rather inaccessible and long proof was given recently by the authors in collaboration with Mazzocca. In this paper a new observation leads to a greatly simplified proof of the conjecture.
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  • Simeon Ball
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Aart Blokhuis
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Received by editor(s): March 23, 1997
  • Communicated by: Jeffry N. Kahn
  • © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3377-3380
  • MSC (1991): Primary 51E21; Secondary 05B25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04653-X
  • MathSciNet review: 1476115