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The translation planes of order 16 are completely classified. The exceptional isomorphism A 8≃GL(4, 2) gives a crucial computational approach to this problem
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The authors thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for their support of this research.
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Dempwolff, U., Reifart, A. The classification of the translation planes of order 16, I. Geom Dedicata 15, 137–153 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147760
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147760