A census of extended generalized quadrangles of order \((q-1,q+1)\) and \((q+1,q-1)\) (Q1808788)

The paper gives a complete survey of the known extended generalized quadrangles with point-residues of order \((q-1, q+1)\) and \((q+1, q-1)\). Section 2 is devoted to extended generalized quadrangles of order \((q-1, q+1)\). Section 3 reviews examples of order \((q+1, q-1)\). In Section 4, a new infinite family of order \((q+1, q-1)\) (\(q\) odd) is constructed. The outline of the construction is as follows. Let \(q\) be an odd prime power and let \(K_{q+3}\) be the complete \((q+3)\)-graph. A parallelism of \(K_{q+3}\) is a 1-factorization of \(K_{q+3}\) and it is known that every complete graph with an even number of vertices allows a 1-factorization. Therefore \(K_{q+3}\) admits a parallelism \(f_1\). A parallelism \(f_2\) of the Ahrens-Szekeres generalized quadrangle \(\text{AS}(q)\) is defined next, using the construction of \(\text{AS}(q)\) from the generalized quadrangle \(W (q)\). Then \(K_{q+3}\) and \(\text{AS}(q)\) are glued together via \((f_1, f_2)\) to form \(\text{Gl}(q)\), which is a flat \(\text{EGQ}(q+1, q-1)\) with point-residues isomorphic to the dual of \(\text{AS}(q)\).