Symmetric designs form the G₂(q) generalized hexagons

DOI10.1006/JCTA.2001.3250MaRDI QIDQ1601445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich Dempwolff, William M. Kantor

Publication date 13 November 2002

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jcta.2001.3250

zbMATH Keywords

Chevalley groupclassical designsnull polaritysimple point-primitive automorphism group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Generalized quadrangles and generalized polygons in finite geometry (51E12)

Review text

A design with the parameters of the point-hyperplane design on a \(6\)-dimensional \(\text{GF}(q)\)-space and automorphism group isomorphic to the automorphism group of the Chevalley group \(G_2(q)\) is construed. Moreover \(G_2(q)\) acts primitively on the points and blocks of this design and is antiflag transitive.

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