A geometric consequence of the classification of finite doubly transitive groups

DOI10.1007/BF00182902MaRDI QIDQ1081114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anne Delandtsheer

Publication date 1986

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00182902

zbMATH Keywords

affine spaceclassification of finite linear spacesdouble transitive groupfinite geometryprojective spaceSteiner systemunital

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Multiply transitive finite groups (20B20) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Steiner systems in finite geometry (51E10) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

Using the classification of finite linear spaces admitting a 2- homogeneous automorphism group [\textit{W. M. Kantor}, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 38, 66-74 (1985; Zbl 0559.05015)] the author shows: Let S be a finite linear space having a proper linear subspace and a line of size \(>2\) or a non-empty family of planes such that any three non-collinear points are contained in exactly one plane. S has an automorphism group \(\Gamma\) which is transitive on the unordered pairs of intersecting lines if and only if S is a projective or affine space of dimension \(\geq 3\) or some Steiner system S(3,k,v). In the first case \(\Gamma\) contains the belonging special linear group, in the second case all lines have size 2.

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