Counting the number of non-isotopic Taniguchi semifields

DOI10.1007/S10623-023-01262-0MaRDI QIDQ6130611zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Faruk Göloğlu, Lukas Kölsch

Publication date 3 April 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13497

zbMATH Keywords

isotopyprojective planessemifields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semifields (12K10) Nonassociative division algebras (17A35) Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40)

Abstract: We investigate the isotopy question for Taniguchi semifields. We give a complete characterization when two Taniguchi semifields are isotopic. We further give precise upper and lower bounds for the total number of non-isotopic Taniguchi semifields, proving that there are around $p^{m+s}$ non-isotopic Taniguchi semifields of size $p^{2m}$ where $s$ is the largest divisor of $m$ with $2seqm$. This result proves that the family of Taniguchi semifields is (asymptotically) the biggest known family of semifields of odd order. The key ingredient of the proofs is a technique to determine isotopy that uses group theory to exploit the existence of certain large subgroups of the autotopism group of a semifield.

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