A near projective plane of order 6

MaRDI QIDQ2016990zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alan R. Prince

Publication date 24 June 2014

Published in Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Conwell heptadsspreads of \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Other finite incidence structures (geometric aspects) (51E30)

Review text

It is well known that no projective plane of order 6 exists as a consequence of the 36 officer problem. A near projective plane of order \(n\) is an incidence structure with \(n^2+n+1\) points and \(n^2+n+1\) lines where each line is incident with \(n+1\) points and each point is incident with \(n+1\) lines such that any two distinct lines intersect in at most two points and any two distinct points are both incident with at most two lines. The author constructs a near projective plane with \(n=6\) containing 15 pure lines by extending the dual of the point-line geometry of \(\mathrm{PG}(3,2)\). This construction is unlike the construction coming from almost difference sets in that there are pure lines.

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