Abstract
We prove that there exist exactly three non-equivalent symplectic semifield spreads of
Funding statement: The first author was supported by Ministry for Education, University and Research of Italy MIUR (Project PRIN 2012 “Geometrie di Galois e strutture di incidenza”) and by the Italian National Group for Algebraic and Geometric Structures and their Applications (GNSAGA–INdAM).
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