Transitive groups of axial homologies of hyperbola structures and Minkowski planes (Q447732)

The geometry associated to a sharply 3-transitive permutation set \(\Sigma\) acting on a set \(M\) is called a hyperbola structure, say \({\mathcal H}\). The point set is given by \(M\times M\), the chain set is determined by the elements of \(\Sigma\), and generators are given by \({\mathcal G}_1\cup {\mathcal G}_2\), with \({\mathcal G}_1=\{\{a\}\times M \mid a\in M\}\) and \({\mathcal G}_2=\{M\times \{a\} \mid a\in M\}\). A hyperbola structure is a Minkowski plane whenever the derived plane at each point of \({\mathcal H}\) is an affine plane. In this paper, axial homologies of \({\mathcal H}\), i.e., automorphisms of \({\mathcal H}\) fixing two generators of the same kind, are presented, together with a typification of the automorphism group of \({\mathcal H}\).NEWLINENEWLINEMore precisely, let \(A(G,H)\) be the group of axial homologies fixing pointwise the points of the two generators \(G\) and \(H\). For a given subgroup \(\Gamma\) of the automorphism group of \({\mathcal H}\), let \({\mathcal U}(\Gamma)\) be the set of all 2-sets \(\{G,H\}\) of generators such that \(A(G,H)\cap \Gamma\) acts transitively on \(X - (G\cup H)\) for a generator \(X\). By determining all possible configurations of \({\mathcal U}(\Gamma)\) a typification for the automorphism group of \({\mathcal H}\) is obtained. Examples of groups \(\Gamma\) for every type are given when \(\Sigma\) is a group. Moreover, for the class of hyperbola structures over half-ordered fields constructed in [\textit{J. Jakóbowski}, Zesz. Nauk., Geom. 20, 13--21 (1993; Zbl 0807.51005)], and in [\textit{G. F. Steinke}, Beitr. Algebra Geom. 37, No. 2, 355--366 (1996; Zbl 0873.51004)], the types of the full automorphism groups are determined.