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New classes of subregular planes are constructed that admit elation groups or Baer groups of order > 2. Further, we construct a variety of large dimension translation planes admitting many elations.
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Jha, V., Johnson, N.L. Subregular planes admitting elations. Des Codes Crypt 41, 125–145 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-006-9001-1
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