Reconstructing ternary Dowling geometries

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2004.07.003MaRDI QIDQ1775744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hongxun Qin, Thomas A. Dowling

Publication date 4 May 2005

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aam.2004.07.003

zbMATH Keywords

Dowling geometrymatroidprojective geometrysigned graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40)

Review text

Dowling geometries play an essential role in various areas of matroid theory. E.g., fix a basis \(p_1,\dots, p_n\) of the rank-\(n\) ternary projective geometry \(\text{PG}(n-1,3)\). The rank-\(n\) ternary Dowling geometry \(Q_n\) is, up to isomorphism, the restriction of \(\text{PG}(n-1,3)\) to the set of points on coordinate lines. In the present paper it is proved that the only geometry of rank \(n> 4\) all whose proper contractions are ternary Dowling geometries is the ternary Dowling geometry. Based on this, the authors confirm a strengthened version of a conjecture due to J. Kung and J. Oxley which refers to the embeddability of ternary geometries of rank-\(n\) into rank-\(n\) ternary Dowling geometries.

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