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This first chapter is devoted mainly to definitions, some examples and a few basic properties. Though generalized polygons are graph-theoretically an (a posteriori) immediate generalization of projective planes, the definition requires some preliminaries such as distance in geometries. The preparation of the definition of a generalized polygon is the goal of the first section.
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Van Maldeghem, H. (1998). Basic Concepts and Results. In: Generalized Polygons. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0271-0_1
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