Generalized conference matrices and projective planes

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2006.08.006MaRDI QIDQ2643843zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yury J. Ionin

Publication date 27 August 2007

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2006.08.006

zbMATH Keywords

conference matriceselation groupshomology groupsLez-Barlotti type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matrices (incidence, Hadamard, etc.) (05B20) Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

In this paper, the author studies the relationship between generalized conference matrices and finite projective planes of Lenz-Barlotti class at least I.2 (i.e., planes with at least one non-incident transitive point-line pair). In fact, such planes are equivalent to generalized conference matrices of index 1. A conference matrix of index one over a multiplicative group \(G\) (not containing the element \(0\)) of order \(n\) is an \((n+2)\times(n+2)\) matrix with entries in \(G\cup\{0\}\) with \(0\)'s only on the main diagonal and such that for any two rows, the set of products of the elements in the same column (except on the diagonal) equals \(G\). This correspondence is then used to prove that in a projective plane of odd order \(n\), every abelian group of \(n-1\) homologies contains a unique involution. Also, the author proves that, if a projective plane of even order is \((p,L)\)-transitive, with \(p\notin L\), and \((p',pp')\)-transitive, with \(p\in L\), and if the group of \((p.L)\)-homologies is abelian, then the group of \((p',pp')\)-elations is elementary abelian (in particular, the order of the plane is a prime power).

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