Is there a McLaughlin geometry?

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.02.023MaRDI QIDQ2496865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonard H. Soicher

Publication date 20 July 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.02.023

zbMATH Keywords

axiom of Veblen and YoungMcLaughlin graphMcLaughlin grouppartially linear geometryPasch's axiomVeblen's axiom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Other designs, configurations (05B30) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to geometry (51-04) Other finite linear geometries (51E26)

Review text

McLaughlin's sporadic simple group was discovered as a group of automorphisms of a certain graph, the \textit{J. McLaughlin} graph [cf. Theory finite groups, Symp. Harvard Univ. 1968, 100--111 (1969; Zbl 0205.32503)]. In the paper under review, the author investigates the question whether there exists a McLaughlin geometry, i.e., a partially linear geometry whose collinearity graph equals the McLaughlin graph. The main result of the paper in that direction, cf. Theorem 6.1, is the fact that a McLaughlin geometry cannot satisfy what the author calls Pasch's axiom; the reviewer prefers to use the term `axiom of Veblen and Young' [see also \textit{G. Pickert}, Geom. Dedicata 50, No.~1, 81--86 (1994; Zbl 0809.51003)].

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