Maximal partial spreads and flocks

DOI10.1023/A:1008296404711MaRDI QIDQ676711zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guglielmo Lunardon, Norman L. Johnson

Publication date 14 May 1997

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008296404711

zbMATH Keywords

flockspartial spreads

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40) Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Finite partial geometries (general), nets, partial spreads (51E14)

Review text

A flock on a cone \({\mathcal C}\) in \(PG(3,q)\) is a partition of the points (other than the vertex) into disjoint conics. Numerous papers have been published on the relations between flocks, partial flocks, spreads and translations planes, partial spreads and generalized triangles. Many of these papers are due to one of the authors (Johnson) or have Johnson as co-author. A spread is a set of mutually disjoint lines which cover \(PG(3,q)\). The authors determine the embeddable (in a spread) partial spreads of degree \(q^2- q+2\) which are obtainable from a Kantor-Knuth flock. From this they get a determination of the number of maximal partial spreads constructible from a flock which is neither linear nor Kantor-Knuth.

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