8_3 in PG(2,q)

DOI10.1007/BF01200478MaRDI QIDQ1077704zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. S. Abdul-Elah, M. W. Al-Dhahir, Dieter Jungnickel

Publication date 1987

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01200478

zbMATH Keywords

punctured affine planetactical configuration embedded in projective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

Let \(\mathfrak C\) be a tactical configuration \(8_ 3\) embedded in a projective plane \({\mathfrak P}\). Then \(\mathfrak C\) is in fact isomorphic to \(\mathrm{BAG}(2,3)\), the biaffine plane of order 3 obtained by puncturing the affine plane of order 3. The main result is as follows: \(\mathfrak C\) can be embedded into a Pappian plane \(\mathfrak P=\mathrm{PG}(2,F)\) iff one of the following three cases holds: (i) \(\mathrm{char}\, F=3\); (ii) \(\mathrm{char}\, F=2\) and \(F\) contains a primitive 3rd root of unity; (iii) \(F\) contains a primitive sixth root of unity. In the finite case, this means \(F=\mathrm{GF}(q)\) with \(q\) a power of 3 or 4 or with \(q\equiv 1\bmod 6\). We also show, that each \(8_3\) embedded in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,F)\) extends to an affine plane of order 3 embedded in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,F)\). Thus our result strengthens the theorem of Ostrom and Sherk on embedding \(\mathrm{AG}(2,3)\) into \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q)\) [see \textit{T. G. Ostrom} and \textit{F. A. Sherk}, Can. Math. Bull. 7, 549--559 (1964; Zbl 0125.38401)]. We also compute the number of configurations \(8_3\) (and of affine planes \(\mathrm{AG}(2,3))\) embedded in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q)\). Particular attention is given to the cases \(q=3\) and \(q=4\).

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