Flocks of hyperbolic quadrics and linear groups containing homologies

DOI10.1007/BF02414068MaRDI QIDQ1190971zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Gabor Korchmáros, A. Bonisoli

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02414068

zbMATH Keywords

flockshyperbolic quadric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

All flocks on a hyperbolic quadric in the finite projective space \(PG(3,q)\) have been classified [see \textit{J. A. Thas}, Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei, VIII. Ser., Rend., Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat. 59(1975), 83-85 (1976; Zbl 0359.50023) and Contemp. Math. 111, 187-218 (1990; Zbl 0728.51010) and \textit{L. Bader} and \textit{G. Lunardon}, Geom. Dedicata 29, No. 2, 177- 183 (1989; Zbl 0673.51010)]. The authors give a group-theoretic proof of this result for the case where \(q\) is odd. In this case, the group \(G\leq PGL(4,q)\) which preserves the flock contains at least \(q+1\) involutorial homologies. It turns out that \(G\) contains a subgroup \(R\) which fixes all lines of a regulus in the hyperbolic quadric and acts sharply transitively on the lines of the opposite regulus. Since all subgroups of \(PGL(2,q)\) are known, one can enumerate the possibilities for \(R\) and for the corresponding flocks.

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