Singer 8-arcs of Mathon type in PG(2, 2⁷)

DOI10.1007/S10623-011-9502-4MaRDI QIDQ420620zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefaan De Winter, T. Maes, F. De Clerck

Publication date 22 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1279

zbMATH Keywords

hyperovalsmaximal arcs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21)

Abstract: In a former paper the authors counted the number of non-isomorphic Mathon maximal arcs of degree 8 in PG(2,2^h), h not 7 and prime. In this paper we will show that in PG(2,2^7) a special class of Mathon maximal arcs of degree 8 arises which admits a Singer group (i.e. a sharply transitive group) on the 7 conics of these arcs. We will give a detailed description of these arcs, and then count the total number of non-isomorphic Mathon maximal arcs of degree 8. Finally we show that the special arcs found in PG(2,2^7) extend to two infinite families of Mathon arcs of degree 8 in PG(2,2^k), k odd and divisible by 7, while maintaining the nice property of admitting a Singer group.

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