Partial linear space
A partial linear space (also semilinear or near-linear space) is a basic incidence structure in the field of incidence geometry, that carries slightly less structure than a linear space. The notion is equivalent to that of a linear hypergraph.
Definition
Let an incidence structure, for which the elements of are called points and the elements of are called lines. S is a partial linear space, if the following axioms hold:
- any line is at least incident with two points
- any pair of distinct points is incident with at most one line
Examples
References
- Shult, Ernest E. (2011), Points and Lines, Universitext, Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15627-4, ISBN 978-3-642-15626-7.
- Lynn Margaret Batten: Combinatorics of Finite Geometries. Cambridge University Press 1986, ISBN 0-521-31857-2, p. 1-22
- L.M. Batten, A. Beutelspacher: The Theory of Finite Linear Spaces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
- Eric Moorhouse: "Incidence Geometry". http://www.uwyo.edu/moorhouse/handouts/incidence_geometry.pdf
External links
- partial linear space at a website of the university of Kiel
- partial linear space at PlanetMath
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