Re: paper claiming projective planes must have prime power order

On 13 Feb, 03:44, Craig Feinstein <cafei...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
For people who don’t have time to read Mehendale’s whole paper, I’ll
summarize his argument in the paper arXiv:math/0611492, which claims
that a finite projective plane must have prime power order:

In other words, the sets of permutations must be sharply 2-transitive.
This implies that the set G of permutations is a group, since there is
an identity permutation in G.

No it doesn't. This is an obvious blunder. There is no
reason why the composite of two permutations in the list
must be in the list.

There you have it - an elementary proof

Not a proof.

Can anyone find a flaw in this argument?

Yes.

I can’t.

That's because you are a credulous imbecile
who believes any drivel whatsoever from any
outsider figure.
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