Conics and caps

DOI10.1007/S00022-011-0077-ZMaRDI QIDQ657009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wen-Ai Jackson, Catherine T. Quinn, S. G. Barwick

Publication date 13 January 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-011-0077-z

zbMATH Keywords

arcscapsconics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

The authors show that the arcs in \(PG(2,q^n)\) correspond to caps in \(PG(2n,q)\) via the André/Bruck-Bose representation of \(PG(2,q^n)\) in \(PG(2n,q)\). Also, they investigate some special properties of conics and caps.

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