Sharp homogeneity in some generalized polygons (Q1423820)

The authors prove and generalize a conjecture of the second author which states that the only projective plane admitting a collineation group acting sharply transitively on the set of all ordered ordinary triangles is the unique plane of order 2. As a matter of fact a proof of the following theorem is provided. Let \(G\) be a collineation group of a generalized \(m\)-gon \(\Gamma\) with \(m=2n+1\). Let \(k\) be any integer within the intervall \([1,n+1]\). If \(G\) acts either sharply transitively on the set of simple paths of length \(2k\) of \(\Gamma\), or \(G\) acts in such a way that for each simple closed path \((x_{0},x_{1},\dots,x_{2k})\) in \(\Gamma\) there exists a unique collineation \(g\in G\) with \(x_{i}^g = x_{2k-i}\) for all \(i\in\{0,1,\dots,k\}\), then \(m=3\), \(k=2\), \(\Gamma\) is the Pappian plane PG(2,\,2) and \(G\) is the full collineation group of \(\Gamma\).