Desarguesian partial parallelisms (Q1841867)

Consider a desarguesian partial parallelism \({\mathcal P}\) in \(\text{PG}(3,q)\), the three-dimensional projective geometry over \(\text{GF}(q)\), of deficiency one. That is, \({\mathcal P}\) is a set of \(q^2+q\) desarguesian spreads in \(\text{PG}(3,q)\) which have no common line. The author shows there is a corresponding translation plane \(\Sigma\) with spread in \(\text{PG} (7,q)\). This plane \(\Sigma\) has a collineation group \(G\cong\text{GL}(2,q)\) with the subgroup \(H\cong\text{SL}(2,q)\) generated by Baer involutions. Futhermore, there are \(q+1\) Baer axes of collineations that belong to a common net \({\mathcal N}\) of degree \(q^2+1\). Also, the partial parallelism \({\mathcal P}\) can be uniquely extended to a parallelism \({\mathcal P}^*\) in \(\text{PG}(3,q)\). The parallelism \({\mathcal P}^*\) is itself desarguesian if and only if the net \({\mathcal N}\) of the last paragraph is derivable. The author gives other results including an interesting discussion on direct products of affine planes extending some results of the author and \textit{T. G. Ostrom} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 75, 99-140 (1996; Zbl 0873.51001)].