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On partially transitive projective planes of certain Hughes types

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

    Cheryl E. Praeger

  3. Department of Mathematics, School of Business and Social Sciences, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Victoria, Australia

    Alan Rahilly

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Praeger, C.E., Rahilly, A. (1977). On partially transitive projective planes of certain Hughes types. In: Bryce, R.A., Cossey, J., Newman, M.F. (eds) Group Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 573. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0087815

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