The surprising ubiquity of planar near-rings

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(Talk in the Special Session in Honour of Prof. Giovanni Ferrero) In [Ferrero, Stems planari e BIB-disegni], planar near-rings have been used to coordinatize certain balanced incomplete block designs. Surprisingly, planar near-rings appear in many other contexts: for example,in the variety of zero-symmetric near-rings that satisfy $x^n \approx x$, the finite subdirectly irreducible members are those integral near-rings that satisfy one of the planarity conditions. We pursue the study of varieties of near-rings.

Period	24 Jul 2008
Event title	Combinatorics 2008 -- International conference on pure and applied combinatorics and its connections with Geometry, Graph Theory and Algebra
Event type	Conference
Location	ItalyShow on map