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Ovals In a Finite Projective Plane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Beniamino Segre
Beniamino Segre*
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University of Rome
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1. Let be a finite projective plane (8, §17), i.e. a projective space of dimension 2 over a Galois field γ. We suppose that γ has characteristic p ≠ 2, hence order q = pn, where p is an odd prime and h is a positive integer. It is well known that every straight line and every non-singular conic of then contains q + 1 points exactly.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 7 , 1955 , pp. 414 - 416
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1955

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