Parallelisms of quadric sets

MaRDI QIDQ378442zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors William E. Cherowitzo, Norman L. Johnson

Publication date 11 November 2013

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

zbMATH Keywords

\(\alpha\)-coneelliptic quadricflocksflokkihyperbolic quadricparallelismsquadratic cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear incidence geometric structures with parallelism (51A15) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20)

Review text

For a field \(K\), and a flock of a quadratic cone, an elliptic quadric or a hyperbolic quadric in \(PG(3,K)\), a parallelism refers to a set of mutually disjoint flocks, whose union is a complete cover of the set of conics of plane intersections of the quadric. The authors show that every flock of a hyperbolic quadric \(H\) and every flock of a quadratic cone \(C\) in \(PG(3,K)\) is in a transitive parallelism of \(H\) or \(C\) respectively. Additionally, it is shown that it is possible to have parallelisms of quadratic cones by maximal partial flocks. Parallelisms by \(\alpha\)-flokki of \(\alpha\)-cones, which are a generalization of quadratic cones, are also considered. The authors end by stating four open problems concerning parallelisms.

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