On unitals with many Baer sublines

DOI10.1023/A:1026487412101MaRDI QIDQ1963153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simeon Ball, Christine M. O'Keefe, Aart Blokhuis

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:1026487412101

zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian curveunital

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21)

Review text

After identifying points of \(\text{PG}(2,q)\) with the slopes of lines in \(\text{GF}(q^3)\), regarded as a \(3\)-dimensional affine space over the field \(\text{GF}(q)\), the authors associate to a unital \(\mathcal U\) in \(\text{PG}(2,q)\), a polynomial in two variables. They show that the combinatorial properties of \(\mathcal U\) yield some restrictions on the coefficients of the polynomial. Assuming \(q=p^2\), \(p\) a prime, they show that \(\mathcal U\) is classical if and only if it has at least \((q-2)\sqrt q\) Baer subplanes among its secants.

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