Collineation groups of projective planes of order n

DOI10.1016/0021-8693(88)90259-1MaRDI QIDQ1102536zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph J. Rotman

Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-8693(88)90259-1

zbMATH Keywords

collineation groupflagprojective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

The paper is an attempt to make progress towards proving the conjecture that every projective plane has a nontrivial collineation. Since it is known that a projective plane of order 10 (if one exists) has a trivial collineation group, the conjecture would show that no such planes exist. Let X be a projective plane of order n, and \(x_ 0\in \ell_ 0\) a flag in X. Then the author proves that there is an \(n^ 3\)-dimensional vector space H(X) over GF(2), and the given flag equips H(X) with an alternating bilinear form which is nondegenerate when n is even. The group of those collineations of the affine plane \(X-\ell_ 0\) which fix the direction \(x_ 0\) is isomorphic to a double stabilizer of the isometry group of the alternating form. When n is even, this group is a double stabilizer of the symplectic group \(Sp(n^ 3,2)\). Some of the methods of the paper are graph-theoretic; a procedure is being introduced employing the symplectic group for the study of graphs. The author makes frequent use of his own previous results [J. Algebra 92, 128-149 (1985; Zbl 0562.51010); Discrete Math. 64, 43-79 (1987)].

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