Characterization of projective planes of small prime orders

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(86)90080-4MaRDI QIDQ1071307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chat-Yin Ho

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(86)90080-4

zbMATH Keywords

collineation groupprojective planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

All known projective planes of prime order are Desarguesian. This naturally leads to the conjecture that all of them are Desarguesian. A weaker form would be that the collineation groups of non-Desarguesian planes of prime order must be relatively small, perhaps solvable. The most important result of this paper is that a projective plane of order 11, 13, or 17 is Desarguesian provided one of the following holds: (a) It admits a collineation group which does not leave any point, line, triangle or proper subplane invariant and contains a non-trivial central collineation. (b) It admits a non-abelian simple group. One of the chief tools is the incidence matrix of the tactical decomposition obtained from the point and line orbits of a collineation group.

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