Scattered linear sets generated by collineations between pencils of lines (Q484169)

In [the authors, Eur. J. Comb. 24, No. 2, 211--218 (2003; Zbl 1024.51011); Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo (2) 54, No. 1, 93--100 (2005; Zbl 1117.51009)], a (degenerate) \(C_F\)-set in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^2)\) is defined as the set of points of intersection of corresponding lines under a collineation with accompanying automorphism \(x\mapsto x^q\) between two pencils of lines with vertices two distinct points \(A\) and \(B\). This article extends the definition of a (degenerate) \(C_F\)-set to that of a (degenerate) \(C_F^m\)-set in an arbitrary projective plane \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\), with \(n\geq 2\), by collineations with accompanying automorphisms \(x\mapsto x^{q^m}\) between two pencils of lines with vertices \(A\) and \(B\). The authors prove that every \(C_F^m\)-set of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\) is the union of the points \(A\) and \(B\) with \(q-1\) scattered \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\)-linear sets of rank \(n\), each of which is a projective geometry \(\mathrm{PG}(n-1,q)\) embedded in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\), and that every degenerate \(C_F^m\)-set is the union of the line \(AB\) with a scattered \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\)-linear set of rank \(n+1\) meeting the line \(AB\) in a \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\)-linear set of pseudoregulus type with transversal points \(A\) and \(B\), and vice versa. The authors also prove that a degenerate \(C_F^m\)-set is the union of the line \(AB\) with an affine geometry \(\mathrm{AG}(n,q)\) embedded in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\). They also calculate the full collineation group stabilizing a (degenerate) \(C_F^m\)-set of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\). To conclude the article, they determine the intersection configurations of two scattered \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\)-linear sets of rank \(n+1\) of \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q^n)\), both meeting the line \(AB\) in a \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\)-linear set of pseudoregulus type with transversal points \(A\) and \(B\).