Regularity conditions on the transversals of lines in a partial geometry

DOI10.1016/S0195-6698(89)80046-0MaRDI QIDQ1120825zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hans Gevaert

Publication date 1989

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6698(89)80046-0

zbMATH Keywords

partial geometrytransversals of lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Other finite incidence structures (geometric aspects) (51E30)

Review text

Let \(S=(P,B,I)\) be a partial geometry with parameters \(s, t, \alpha\) \((\alpha \ne t+1)\); that is, each line contains \(s+1\) points, through each point there are \(t+1\) lines and there are precisely \(\alpha\) lines joining any non-incident point and line. If \(S\) also satisfies the further property that, for any pair of skew lines \(\ell\) and \(m\) and any point \(P\) on neither \(\ell\) nor \(m\), there is a unique transversal of \(\ell\) and \m\) through \(P\), then \(S\) is one of three types: (1) a grid of order \(s+1\) with \(\alpha +1;\) (2) the points and lines of \(\mathrm{PG}(3,q)\) with \(\alpha =s+1;\) (3) the dual of a certain net of order 4 and degree 3 with \(\alpha =2\), \(s=2\), \(t=3\).

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