Pseudo-ovals in even characteristic and ovoidal Laguerre planes

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2014.10.001zbMATH Open1304.51003OpenAlexW2014797510MaRDI QIDQ472170FDOQ472170

Authors Sara Rottey, Geertrui Van de Voorde

Publication date 19 November 2014

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8415

zbMATH Keywords

Desarguesian spreadsovoidal Laguerre planespseudo-hyperovalspseudo-ovals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21) Laguerre geometries (51B15)

Abstract: Pseudo-arcs are the higher dimensional analogues of arcs in a projective plane: a pseudo-arc is a set $mathcalA$ of $(n-1)$-spaces in $mathrmPG(3n-1,q)$ such that any three span the whole space. Pseudo-arcs of size $q^n+1$ are called pseudo-ovals, while pseudo-arcs of size $q^n+2$ are called pseudo-hyperovals. A pseudo-arc is called elementary if it arises from applying field reduction to an arc in $mathrmPG(2,q^n)$. We explain the connection between dual pseudo-ovals and elation Laguerre planes and show that an elation Laguerre plane is ovoidal if and only if it arises from an elementary dual pseudo-oval. The main theorem of this paper shows that a pseudo-(hyper)oval in $mathrmPG(3n-1,q)$, where $q$ is even and $n$ is prime, such that every element induces a Desarguesian spread, is elementary. As a corollary, we give a characterisation of certain ovoidal Laguerre planes in terms of the derived affine planes.

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