Planes in which every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane

DOI10.1007/S10623-011-9567-0MaRDI QIDQ438903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tim Penttila, William M. Kantor

Publication date 31 July 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-011-9567-0

zbMATH Keywords

Baer subplanesDesarguesian projective planesprojective planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15)

Review text

In a projective plane of order \(n^2\) a \textit{Baer subplane} is a subplane of order \(n\). A \textit{quadrangle} is a set of four points, no three of which are collinear. In 2000 Blokhuis and Sziklai showed that a projective plane of order \(p^2\), \(p\) prime, in which every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane is Desarguesian. In this paper the authors reach the same conclusion with a weaker hypothesis on the order of the plane, showing that a projective plane of square order is Desarguesian if and only if every quadrangle lies on a unique Baer subplane. The proof of the result is dependent upon the classification of finite simple groups.

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