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Lenz-Barlotti I.4 perspectivity groups are abelian

Author(s): Robert A. Liebler; Elizabeth Scott-Janda
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 1447-1451.
MSC (2000): Primary 51-00, 05-00
Posted: December 10, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2578538
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Abstract: We extend a 1972 result of Kantor and Pankin and give a new elementary proof of the assertion in the title for projective planes of arbitrary order. The main tool appears in the very first book on group theory by Jordan in 1870.


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Additional Information:

Robert A. Liebler
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523

Elizabeth Scott-Janda
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia 31419
Address at time of publication: 3063 West Chapman Avenue, Orange, California 92868

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10051-5
PII: S 0002-9939(09)10051-5
Received by editor(s): July 30, 2008,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 28, 2009
Posted: December 10, 2009
Communicated by: Jonathan I. Hall
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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