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The affine planes which arise from the projective planes PG(2, q) are denoted by AG(2, q). There is a projective plane of order N if and only if there is an affine plane of order N. When there is only one affine plane of order N there is only one projective plane of order N, but the converse is not true. The affine planes formed by the removal ...
The Fano plane is the projective plane with the fewest points and lines. The smallest 2-dimensional projective geometry (that with the fewest points) is the Fano plane, which has 3 points on every line, with 7 points and 7 lines in all, having the following collinearities:
One common model of the real projective plane is the space of lines in three-dimensional Euclidean space which pass through a particular origin point; in this model, lines through the origin are considered to be the "points" of the projective plane, and planes through the origin are considered to be the "lines" in the projective plane.
A two-dimensional complex space – such as the two-dimensional complex coordinate space, the complex projective plane, or a complex surface – has two complex dimensions, which can alternately be represented using four real dimensions. A two-dimensional lattice is an infinite grid of points which can be represented using integer coordinates.
The real projective plane is a two-dimensional manifold that cannot be realized in three dimensions without self-intersection, shown here as Boy's surface. Begin with a sphere centered on the origin. Every line through the origin pierces the sphere in two opposite points called antipodes .
In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space. When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euclidean plane refers to the ...
The projective -space is compact, connected, and has a fundamental group isomorphic to the cyclic group of order 2: its universal covering space is given by the antipody quotient map from the -sphere, a simply connected space. It is a double cover.
As the intersection of two planes passing through O is a line passing through O, the intersection of two distinct projective lines consists of a single projective point. The plane P 1 defines a projective line which is called the line at infinity of P 2. By identifying each point of P 2 with the corresponding projective point, one can thus say ...