scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1066166

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Authors Klaus Metsch

Publication date 7 June 1998

zbMATH Keywords

Buekenhout-Metz unitalHermitian unitalsnon-Hermitean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spreads and packing problems in finite geometry (51E23)

Review text

\textit{F. Buekenhout} has given [Geom. Dedicatea 5, 189-194 (1976; Zbl 0336.50014)] a construction of unitals in \(PG(2,q^2)\) using the André representation of \(PG(2,q^2)\) in the space \(PG(4,q)\) [\textit{J. André}, Math. Z. 60, 156-186 (1954; Zbl 0056.38503)]. \textit{R. Metz} has shown [Geom. Dedicata 8, 125-126 (1979; Zbl 0403.51007)] that this construction produces Hermitian and non-Hermitian unitals. In this note, the author gives a geometric criterion in \(PG(4,q)\) to decide whether the unital in \(PG(2,q^2)\) is Hermitian or not. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0871.00034].

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