Complete systems of lines on a Hermitian surface over a finite field

DOI10.1023/A:1026439528939MaRDI QIDQ1963152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. W. P. Hirschfeld, Gary L. Ebert

Publication date 24 January 2000

Published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1026439528939

zbMATH Keywords

hemisystemsHermitian surfacesmaximal partial spread

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other finite linear geometries (51E26) Finite geometry and special incidence structures (51E99)

Review text

It has been proved by \textit{B. Segre} [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 70, 1-202 (1965; Zbl 0146.16703)] that the Hermitian surface \(H(3,q)\) has no spread. Hence the following question is natural. What is the maximum size \(m_q\) of a maximal spread of \(H(3,q)\)? The authors, with the aid of a computer, estimate \(m_q\) for different values of \(q\). Exhaustive searching shows that \(m_9=16\). They prove that \(m_{16}\geq 25\) and \(m_{25}\geq 42\) by constructing a maximal partial spread of \(H(3,16)\) of order 25 and a maximal partial spread of \(H(3,25)\) of order 42. All maximal spreads of \(H(3,9)\) are proved to be isomorphic and are related to the classical Kummer's quartic surface.

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