A classification of finite \ 0,1,2\-inversive planes

DOI10.1016/S0012-365X(99)00146-6MaRDI QIDQ1808790zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicola Durante, Ursula Hübsch, V. Napolitano, Johannes Ueberberg

Publication date 1 February 2000

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-365x(99)00146-6

zbMATH Keywords

inversive plane semi-affine plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Möbius geometries (51B10) Other finite nonlinear geometries (51E25)

Review text

A circular space is a geometry such that any three points determine a unique circle, every circle contains at least three points, and there are at least two circles. A circular space is called an \(\{0,1,2\}\)-inversive plane if the residue space in every point is a \(\{0,1,2\}\)-semi-affine plane, i.e., a linear space (or incidence space) such that for every non-incident pair of a point \(P\) and a line \(\ell,\) the number of lines through \(P\) not intersecting \(\ell\) is in the set \(\{0,1,2\}.\) The authors give a complete classification of all finite \(\{0,1,2\}\)-inversive planes. Their list contains more than two dozen items most of which only have a small number of points. Indeed, there are only three infinite classes, namely inversive planes, punctured inversive planes, and one such that the residue space is obtained from a projective plane of order~\(n\) by deleting a \(k\)-arc, where \(k(k-1)(k-2)=12n(n+1).\)

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