1. Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 66502, USA 2. Department of Pure Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, S25, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium
Abstract:
We give an elementary proof of a critical lemma of Arjeh Cohen used in his fundamental paper giving an axiomatic characterization
of Grassmann spaces of finite singular rank.