Incidence structures of affine and projective types

affine design affine G- space finite incidence structures finite index parallelism projective design projective G-spaces smooth design tactical configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) Linear incidence geometric structures with parallelism (51A15) Combinatorial geometries and geometric closure systems (51D20) General block designs in finite geometry (51E05)

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The authors give a combinatorial characterization of the incidence structures whose points and blocks are the h- and \((h+1)\)-dimensional affine and projective spaces \(A_{h,h+1}({\mathbb{A}})\), \(P_{h,h+1}({\mathbb{P}})\), respectively. They define the concepts of affine and projective G-spaces, examples of which are the above mentioned incidence structures, by suitably and furtherly axiomatizing the class of semilinear spaces (P,L) [cf. \textit{A. P. Sprague}, Discrete Math. 33, 79- 87 (1981; Zbl 0461.51003)], and by determining several properties of this subclass. In particular, that an affine G-space does have a natural projective G-extension. Theorem I: A projective G-space of finite index h is isomorphic to a \(P_{r-h-1,r-h}({\mathbb{P}})\), for some projective space \({\mathbb{P}}.\) Theorem II: Let (P,L) be an affine G-space of finite index. Then, there exists an affine space A and an integer h such that (P,L) is isomorphic to \(A_{h,h+1}({\mathbb{A}})\).

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