A family of flat Minkowski planes over convex functions (Q2134008)

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, this is a presentation of a new family of flat Minkowski planes admitting the \(3\)-dimensional connected group \[ \Phi_{\infty}= \{(x, y) \mapsto (x + b, ay + c)\, |\, a, b, c \in \mathbb{R}, a > 0\} \] as their group of automorphisms. The construction is motivated by the family of flat Laguerre planes of translation type described in [\textit{R. Löwen} and \textit{U. Pfüller}, Geom. Dedicata 23, 87--96 (1987; Zbl 0615.51007), ibid. 23, 73--85 (1987; Zbl 0615.51006)]. The possible Klein-Kroll types of planes in the family are VII.F.23 (if the plane is isomorphic to the classical flat Minkowski plane), III.C.19 (in case the plane is isomorphic to a specific generalised Hartmann plane), and III.C.1 (in all other cases).