Generalized hexagons and Singer geometries

DOI10.1007/S10623-007-9148-4MaRDI QIDQ1009012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph A. Thas, Hendrik Van Maldeghem

Publication date 31 March 2009

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-007-9148-4

zbMATH Keywords

embeddingSinger groupsplit Cayley hexagon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

Let \({\mathcal{L}}\) be a set of lines of \({\mathsf{PG}}(5, q)\) satisfying the following conditions: \begin{itemize}\item(1) Every plane contains 0, 1 or \(q + 1\) elements of \({\mathcal{L}}\). \item(2) Every solid contains no more than \(q ^{2} + q + 1\) and no less than \(q + 1\) elements of \({\mathcal{L}}\). \item(3) Every point of \({\mathsf{PG}}(5, q)\) is on \(q + 1\) members of \({\mathcal{L}}\). \item(4) The lines of \(\mathcal{L}\) through some point are contained in a solid, if \(q\neq 2\), and in a plane, if \(q=2\). It is shown that then \(\mathcal{L}\) is the set of lines of a regularly embedded split Cayley generalized hexagon \({\mathsf{H}}(q)\) in \({\mathsf{PG}}(5, q)\) , with \(q\) even. Examples are presented of sets \({\mathcal{L}}\) satisfying only (1)-(3), based on a Singer cycle in \({\mathsf{PG}}(5, q)\), for all \(q\).\end{itemize}

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