On BEL-configurations and finite semifields

DOI10.1007/S10623-014-0015-9zbMATH Open1352.12005arXiv1402.2486OpenAlexW2045554066MaRDI QIDQ256558FDOQ256558

Michel Lavrauw, John Sheekey

Publication date: 9 March 2016

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

Abstract: The BEL-construction for finite semifields was introduced in cite{BEL2007}; a geometric method for constructing semifield spreads, using so-called BEL-configurations in $V(rn,q)$. In this paper we investigate this construction in greater detail, and determine an explicit multiplication for the semifield associated with a BEL-configuration in $V(rn,q)$, extending the results from cite{BEL2007}, where this was obtained only for $r=n$. Given a BEL-configuration with associated semifields spread $mathcalS$, we also show how to find a BEL-configuration corresponding to the dual spread $mathcal{S}^d$. Furthermore, we study the effect of polarities in $V(rn,q)$ on BEL-configurations, leading to a characterisation of BEL-configurations associated to symplectic semifields. We give precise conditions for when two BEL-configurations in $V(n^2,q)$ define isotopic semifields. We define operations which preserve the BEL property, and show how non-isotopic semifields can be equivalent under this operation. We also define an extension of the ```switching operation on BEL-configurations in $V(2n,q)$ introduced in cite{BEL2007}, which, together with the transpose operation, leads to a group of order $8$ acting on BEL-configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2486

zbMATH Keywords

BEL-configurationfinite semifieldspread

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semifields (12K10) Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40)

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Cited In (5)

• On the isotopism classes of finite semifields
• The tensor rank of semifields of order 16 and 81
• The BEL-rank of finite semifields
• The generalized translation dual of a semifield
• On the intersection problem for linear sets in the projective line

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