A large class of chain geometries of finite dimension is characterized as strong chain spaces possessing a distinguished group of automorphisms fixing two distant points.
NOTATIONS. THE THEOREMAny incidence structure is denoted by a pair (P, B), where P is a set, the elements of which are called points and B is a set of subsets of P, the blocks. An
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