Quaternion Hermitian planes (Q686734)

The author studies commutative groups of automorphisms of stable planes (= topological planes). He characterizes translation groups and their duals. This result is applied to stable planes of dimension 8 admitting unitary groups of degenerate hermitian forms on the 3-dimensional left vector space over Hamilton's quaternions \(\mathbb{H}\). This allows to determine the 8-dimensional point homogeneous stable planes admitting a unitary group \(\Gamma\) of \(\mathbb{H}^ 3\): Any such plane is isomorphic to the subplane induced on some open orbit of \(\Gamma\) on the point set of the projective plane \(\mathbb{P}_ 2(\mathbb{H})\) over \(\mathbb{H}\).