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Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
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Omittable planes

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In analogy to omittable lines in the plane, we initiate the study of omittable planes in 3-space. Given a collection of n planes in real projective 3-space, a plane Π is said to be omittable if Π is free of ordinary lines of intersection - in other words, if all the lines of intersection of Π with other planes from the collection come at the intersection of three or more planes. We provide two infinite families of planes yielding omittable planes in either a pencil or near-pencil, together with examples having between three and seven omittable planes, examples that we call "sporadic," which do not fit into either of the two infinite families.

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