A conjecture on affine planes of prime order (Q910708)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4140688
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4140688 |
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A conjecture on affine planes of prime order (English)
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1989
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The paper settles Kallaher's conjecture that every affine plane of prime order with a transitive collineation group is Desarguesian. The bulk of the proof concerns the result for p an odd prime, that, if a polynomial function f: GF(p)\(\to GF(p)\) of degree at most p-1 has the property that, for each e, \(d\in GF(p)\) with \(d\neq 0\), the equation \(f(x+d)-f(x)=e\) has a unique solution \(x\in GF(p)\), then it is quadratic.
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finite geometry
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affine plane
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polynomial function
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