Bijections which preserve blocking sets

MaRDI QIDQ1089338zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Peter J. Cameron, Francesco Mazzocca

Publication date 1986

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

affine planebijectionblocking setslinear spaceprojective spacesymmetric design

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

We consider the following question: Given a family \({\mathcal A}\) of sets for which \({\mathcal A}\)-blocking sets exist, is it true that any bijection of the set of points which preserves the family of \({\mathcal A}\)-blocking sets must preserve \({\mathcal A}?\) Using a variety of techniques, we show that the answer is 'yes' in many cases, for example, when \({\mathcal A}\) is the family of subspaces of fixed dimension in a projective space, lines in an affine plane, or blocks of a symmetric design, but that it is 'no' for lines of an arbitrary linear space.

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