On polar ovals in abelian projective planes

MaRDI QIDQ378445zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kei Yuen Chan, Philip P. W. Wong, Hiu Fai Law

Publication date 11 November 2013

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

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic difference setsovalspolarityprojective planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of difference sets (number-theoretic, group-theoretic, etc.) (05B10) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21)

Review text

An abelian projective plane is a projective plane which admits an abelian Singer group. Such planes have been studied by \textit{U. Ott} [Math. Z. 144, 195--215 (1975; Zbl 0305.50009)] and \textit{C. Y. Ho} [J. Algebra 208, No. 2, 533--550 (1998; Zbl 0918.51012)]. The paper in fact is based on these results. Abelian projectivc planes give rise to abelian difference sets \(D\). The authors give a condition on \(D\) such that \(2D\) is the set of absolute points of a polarity and show that such projective planes then have to be Desarguesian.

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