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Generalized polygons

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An Introduction to Incidence Geometry

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In this chapter, we discuss the basic notions and results from the theory of generalized polygons. More information about these point-line geometries can be found in the standard books [103, 131] on the subject.

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De Bruyn, B. (2016). Generalized polygons. In: An Introduction to Incidence Geometry . Frontiers in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43811-5_5

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