An oval partition of the central units of certain semifield planes

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(94)00376-TMaRDI QIDQ1923488zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 7 October 1996

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(94)00376-T

zbMATH Keywords

central unit commutative semified translation oval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semifields (12K10) Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40)

Review text

Let the translation plane \(\pi\) be coordinatised by the commutative semified \((D,+, \circ)\) of even order \(q^N\) and assume that the middle nucleus of \(D\) is isomorphic to \(GF(q)\). An affine point \(I\) of \(\pi\) not on the coordinate axes is called a central unit if the semifield obtained from \(D\) by recoordinatising \(\pi\) with \(I\) as unit point is also commutative. The authors show that all nonzero points on the translation oval \(\{(x,x\circ x)\mid x\in D\}\) are central units and that all other central units are obtained by applying middle nucleus homologies to this translation oval. It follows that the set of central units is partitioned into \(q-1\) translation ovals minus the origin.

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