Unitary designs with regular sets of points

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(88)90052-0MaRDI QIDQ1106314zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors N. K. A. Rostom, J. D. Key

Publication date 1988

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(88)90052-0

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism group doubly-transitive on pointsblocksclassical unitaldesigninvolutionRee-unitalSylow 3-subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

The classical unital is the set of absolute points and non-absolute lines of \(PG_ 2(q^ 2)\) equipped with a unitary polarity. The Ree-unital is given via the Ree group: the points are the Sylow 3-subgroups and the blocks the involution where a point is contained in a block if its normalizer contains the involution. In both cases one gets a design with parameters \(2-(q^ 3+1,q+1,1),\) where q is arbitrary for the classical unital and an odd power of 3 for the Ree unital, and with automorphism group doubly-transitive on points. The authors prove that in both cases (for U(q) one must assume \(q\neq 2)\) there is a 5-subset of points for which, in the respective automorphism group, there is no automorphism fixing the 5-subset (as a set).

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