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- From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
- Subject: sci.math FAQ: Projective Plane of Order 10
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- PROJECTIVE PLANE OF ORDER 10
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- Is it possible to define 111 sets (lines) of 11 points each such that:
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- For any pair of points there is precisely one line containing them
- both and for any pair of lines there is only one point common to them
- both?
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- Analogous questions with n^2 + n + 1 and n + 1 instead of 111 and 11
- have been positively answered only in case n is a prime power. For n =
- 6 it is not possible, more generally if n is congruent to 1 or 2 mod 4
- and can not be written as a sum of two squares, then an FPP of order n
- does not exist. The n = 10 case has been settled as not possible
- either by Clement Lam. As the ``proof" took several years of computer
- search (the equivalent of 2000 hours on a Cray-1) it can be called the
- most time-intensive computer assisted single proof. The final steps
- were ready in January 1989.
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- References
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- R. H. Bruck and H. J. Ryser. The nonexistence of certain finite
- projective planes. Canadian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 1 (1949), pp
- 88-93.
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- C. Lam. American Mathematical Monthly, 98 (1991), 305-318.
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