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On homomorphism-homogeneous point-line geometries

Publication date: 08.10.2019

Reports on Mathematical Logic, 2019, Number 54, pp. 101 - 119

https://doi.org/10.4467/20842589RM.19.007.10655

Authors

Ėva Jungabel
Mathematical Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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On homomorphism-homogeneous point-line geometries

Abstract

A relational structure is homomorphism-homogeneous if every homomorphism between finite substructures extends to an endomorphism of the structure. A point-line geometry is a non-empty set of elements called points, together with a collection of subsets, called lines, in a way that every line contains at least two points and any pair of points is contained in at most one line. A line which contains more than two points is called a regular line. Point-line geometries can alternatively be formalised as relational structures. We establish a correspondence between the point-line geometries investigated in this paper and the firstorder structures with a single ternary relation L satisfying certain axioms (i.e. that the class of point-line geometries corresponds to a subclass of 3-uniform hypergraphs). We characterise the homomorphism-homogeneous point-line geometries with two regular non-intersecting lines. Homomorphism-homogeneous pointline geometries containing two regular intersecting lines have already been classified by Mašulović.

Received 15 November 2018

AMS subject classification: Primary 05B25; Secondary 03B10.

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Information: Reports on Mathematical Logic, 2019, Number 54, pp. 101 - 119

Article type: Original article

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On homomorphism-homogeneous point-line geometries

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On homomorphism-homogeneous point-line geometries

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Mathematical Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, 1117 Budapest, Hungary

Published at: 08.10.2019

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