The doubly transitive \(t\)-parallelisms (Q941106): Difference between revisions

A line parallelism of a projective space is an equivalence relation on its set of lines satisfying the Euclidean postulate of parallelism. The associated equivalence classes are called a spread. In a previous paper [Des. Codes Cryptography 22, No. 2, 179--189 (2001; Zbl 0979.51001)] the first author showed that the only doubly transitive line parallelisms of PG\((3,q)\) are exactly the two regular ones in PG\((3,2)\). For generalizing the concept of line parallelism a \textit{\(t\)-spread} of a finite vector space \(V\) over GF\((q)\) is defined to be a partition of \(V\setminus\{0\}\) by \(t+1\)-dimensional GF\((q)\)-subspaces. Then, a \textit{\(t\)-parallelism} of a \((t+1)k\)-dimensional vector space over GF\((q)\) is a partition of the \((t+1)\)-vector subspaces by \(t\)-spreads. Currently, there are no examples of \(t\)-parallelisms for \(t > 1\) available, albeit the fact that there are large varieties of \(t\)-spreads. Indeed, the authors prove that if \({\mathcal P}\) is a \(t\)-parallelism of PG\((n,q)\) that admits a collineation group acting doubly transitive on the \(t\)-spreads of \({\mathcal P}\), then \(t=1\), \(n=3\), \(q=2\), and \({\mathcal P}\) is one of the two regular line parallelisms of PG\((3,2)\).