Kummer configurations and designs embedded in planes

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(89)90069-1MaRDI QIDQ1823951zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aiden A. Bruen

Publication date 1989

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(89)90069-1

zbMATH Keywords

biplanesconicsfinite projective planeKummer configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Other designs, configurations (05B30)

Review text

Let PG(2,q) denote the finite projective plane over the field with q elements. In PG(2,5), \textit{E. F. Assmus} [Planes and biplanes revisited, J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A (to appear)] observed the existence of 16 points and 16 conics such that any two distinct conics meet in precisely two points, thereby constituting a (16,6,2)-design. In the present paper, the author shows that in PG(2,q), \(q>3\) and q odd, there is a set Z of 16 points and a set W of 16 conical sets so that Z and the subsets W form a (16,6,2)-design.

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