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Combinatorial Configurations

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Chapter 5 is devoted to the study of the combinatorial configurations, which is an incidence structure whose incidence graph is bipartite, regular on each bipartition, and having girth six. All the classical geometric point-line configurations are examples of combinatorial configurations, and this chapter is devoted to studying them and their automorphisms and self-dualities using only this combinatorial description.

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Pisanski, T., Servatius, B. (2013). Combinatorial Configurations. In: Configurations from a Graphical Viewpoint. Birkhäuser Advanced Texts Basler Lehrbücher. Birkhäuser, Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8364-1_5

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