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Projective injections of geometries and their affine extensions

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We present a general method allowing the construction geometries whose diagram is an extension of the diagram of a given geometry. Some applications of this construction process are described.

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Buekenhout, F., Dehon, M. & De Schutter, I. Projective injections of geometries and their affine extensions. J Geom 52, 41–53 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01406825

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