Alternating groups as collineation groups

DOI10.1006/JABR.1999.8113MaRDI QIDQ1972413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adilson Goncalves, Chat-Yin Ho

Publication date 13 December 2000

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.1999.8113

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupprojective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

A collineation group \(G\) of a projective plane \(\pi\) is called totally irregular if each \(G\)-orbit of points is irregular, that is, the stabiliser of any point in \(G\) is not \(1\). In the paper under review, the authors prove that only finitely many alternating groups can be totally irregular collineation groups of projective planes. Precisely, they prove that if \(R\) is a subset of the set of positive integers, and \(S=\{(G_r,\pi_r)\mid r\in R\}\) is a sequence of totally irregular collineation groups, with \(G_r\) isomorphic to the alternating group of degree \(r\), on projective planes \(\pi_r\), then \(R\) is a finite set, and if \(N\) is the maximal element in \(R\), then \(R\leq 21\). Furthermore, if \(G_r\) contains a perspectivity, then \(N\leq r\), and all involutions are perspectivities.

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