Transitive and co-transitive caps

zbMATH Open0971.51008arXivmath/0007177MaRDI QIDQ1590243FDOQ1590243

Authors: Antonio Cossidente, Oliver King 

Publication date: 6 November 2001

Published in: Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A cap in PG(r,q) is a set of points, no three of which are collinear. A cap is said to be transitive if its automorphism group in PGammaL(r+1,q) acts transtively on the cap, and co-transitive if the automorphism group acts transtively on the cap's complement in PG(r,q). Transitive, co-transitive caps are characterized as being one of: an elliptic quadric in PG(3,q); a Suzuki-Tits ovoid in PG(3,q); a hyperoval in PG(2,4); a cap of size 11 in PG(4,3); the complement of a hyperplane in PG(r,2); or a union of Singer orbits in PG(r,q) whose automorphism group comes from a subgroup of GammaL(1,q^{r+1}).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0007177

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zbMATH Keywords

caps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primitive groups (20B15) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Linear codes and caps in Galois spaces (51E22)

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