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The Hoffman–Singleton manifold

  • Daniel Pellicer and Yesenia Villicaña Molina EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: October 28, 2025
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Abstract

We introduce the Hoffman–Singleton manifold based on a particular subgraph of the Hoffman–Singleton graph. This manifold is motivated in a combinatorial fashion, and it is defined rigorously in geometric terms. We also present a few geometric properties of this manifold.

MSC 2010: 05C25; 51M10; 57N10

Funding statement: This paper was supported by CONACYT “Fondo Sectorial de Investigación para la Educación” under grant A1-S-10839.

  1. Communicated by: T. Grundhöfer

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Received: 2025-01-08
Revised: 2025-06-10
Published Online: 2025-10-28
Published in Print: 2025-10-27

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