BRUCK NETS AND PARTIAL SHERK PLANES

DOI10.1017/S144678871700009XMaRDI QIDQ4601291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Bamberg, Joanna B. Fawcett, Jesse Lansdown

Publication date 15 January 2018

Published in Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07231

zbMATH Keywords

affine planeBruck netfinite geometrymetric planepartial Sherk plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General block designs in finite geometry (51E05) Finite partial geometries (general), nets, partial spreads (51E14) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Absolute planes in metric geometry (51F05)

Abstract: In Bachmann's Aufbau der Geometrie aus dem Spiegelungsbegriff (1959), it was shown that a finite metric plane is a Desarguesian affine plane of odd order equipped with a perpendicularity relation on lines, and conversely. Sherk (1967) generalised this result to characterise the finite affine planes of odd order by removing the 'three reflections axioms' from a metric plane. We show that one can obtain a larger class of natural finite geometries, the so-called Bruck nets of even degree, by weakening Sherk's axioms to allow non-collinear points.

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