On partial geometries arising from maximal arcs

DOI10.1007/S10801-020-00995-8zbMATH Open1484.51002arXiv2008.13246OpenAlexW3120321928WikidataQ114226147 ScholiaQ114226147MaRDI QIDQ2114779FDOQ2114779

Vladimir D. Tonchev, Mustafa Gezek

Publication date: 15 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The subject of this paper are partial geometries $pg(s,t,alpha)$ with parameters $s=d(d^{\prime }-1),t=d^{\prime }(d-1),alpha=(d-1)(d^{\prime }-1)$, $d,d^{\prime }ge2$. In all known examples, $q=d{d}^{\prime }$ is a power of 2 and the partial geometry arises from a maximal arc of degree $d$ or $d^{\prime }$ in a projective plane of order $q$ via a known construction due to Thas cite{Thas73} and Wallis cite{W}, with a single known exception of a partial geometry $pg(4,6,3)$ found by Mathon cite{Math} that is not associated with a maximal arc in the projective plane of order 8. A parallel class of lines is a set of pairwise disjoint lines that covers the point set. Two parallel classes are called orthogonal if they share exactly one line. An upper bound on the maximum number of pairwise orthogonal parallel classes in a partial geometry $G$ with parameters $pg(d(d^{\prime }-1),d^{\prime }(d-1),(d-1)(d^{\prime }-1))$ is proved, and it is shown that a necessary and sufficient condition for $G$ to arise from a maximal arc of degree $d$ or $d^{\prime }$ in a projective plane of order $q=d{d}^{\prime }$ is that both $G$ and its dual geometry contain sets of pairwise orthogonal parallel classes that meet the upper bound. An alternative construction of Mathon's partial geometry is presented, and the new necessary condition is used to demonstrate why this partial geometry is not associated with any maximal arc in the projective plane of order 8. The partial geometries associated with all known maximal arcs in projective planes of order 16 are classified up to isomorphism, and their parallel classes of lines and the 2-rank of their incidence matrices are computed. Based on these results, some open problems and conjectures are formulated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13246

zbMATH Keywords

strongly regular graphprojective planepartial geometrymaximal arc

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Finite partial geometries (general), nets, partial spreads (51E14)

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