Affine circle geometry over quaternion skew fields

DOI10.1016/S0012-365X(96)00328-7MaRDI QIDQ1377802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Havlicek

Publication date 13 December 1998

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3192

zbMATH Keywords

Baer subplanechain geometryGalois extensionquaternion skew field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Field extensions (12F99) Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40) General theory of nonlinear incidence geometry (51B05) Möbius geometries (51B10)

Abstract: We investigate the a{pm}ne circle geometry arising from a quaternion skew field and one of its maximal commutative subfields.

Review text

The author continues his work from [Abh. Math. Semin. Univ. Hamburg 64, 279-292 (1994; Zbl 0816.51006), Geom. Dedicata 49, No. 2, 239-251 (1994; Zbl 0796.51005), Aequationes Math. 45, No. 2-3, 232-238 (1993; Zbl 0787.51006)]. Let \(L\) be a quaternion skew field and \(K\) a maximal commutative subfield of \(L\), and \(\Sigma(K,L)\) the corresponding chain geometry. As point set of this geometry the author takes rather a spread of the 3-dimensional projective space \({\mathcal P}_K\) over \(K\) than the projective line over \(L\). Taking this point of view the author describes how, by deleting one point \(\infty\) (= spread line of a previously chosen projective subplane \(\widetilde {\mathcal A})\), an affine plane \({\mathcal A}\) arises whose line structure is induced by the chains. A chain \({\mathcal C}\) of \(\Sigma (K,L)\) containing \(\infty\) induces either a line or a degenerated circle of this affine plane according to whether or not \({\mathcal C}\) has a transversal line in \(\widetilde {\mathcal A}\). If \(\infty \notin {\mathcal C}\), a non-degenerate circle arises. Degenerate circles turn out to be affine Baer subplanes of \({\mathcal A}\) coordinatized by the center of \(L\). Non-degenerate circles are intersections of affine Hermitian varieties of \(K\) is a Galois extension of the center of \(L\).

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