A remark on the action of PGL(2,q) and PSL(2,q) on the projective line

DOI10.14492/HOKMJ/1351257814MaRDI QIDQ676415zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shiro Iwasaki, Thomas Meixner

Publication date 1 September 1997

Published in Hokkaido Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.14492/hokmj/1351257814

zbMATH Keywords

actionsdesignsfinite projective linesstabilizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of block designs (05B05) Combinatorial aspects of finite geometries (05B25) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Review text

Let \(q\) be a prime power, \(K=\text{GF}(q)\) the finite field with \(q\) elements, \(\Omega=K\cup\{\infty\}\) the projective line over \(K\). Let \(L=\text{PGL}(2,q)\) and \(S=\text{PSL}(2,q)\) be the linear fractional group on \(\Omega\) and the special linear fractional group on \(\Omega\), respectively. Let \(U\) be any non-trivial subgroup of the multiplicative group \(K\setminus\{0\}\) and set \(E=U\cup\{\infty\}\). The main purpose of this note is to determine the structures of \(L_E\) and \(S_E\), the setwise stabilizers of \(E\) in \(L\) and \(S\), respectively. Then, as an application, by taking various \(q\) and \(U\), the authors obtain various 3-designs \((\Omega,E^L)\) and 3 (resp. 2)-designs \((\Omega,E^S)\) in case \(q\equiv-1\) (resp. \(q\equiv 1)\pmod 4\). Some of these designs fill in several blanks of the table of \textit{Y. M. Chee, C. J. Colbourn} and \textit{D. L. Kreher} [Ars Comb. 29, 193-258 (1990; Zbl 0719.05011)].

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(8)

• On the action of \(PSU(3,q^ 2)\) on an affine plane of order \(q^ 3\)
• Halving \(\text{PSL}(2,q)\)
• Translations of the squares in a finite field and an infinite family of 3-designs
• Unifying some known infinite families of combinatorial 3-designs
• \(3\)-designs from PGL\((2,q)\)
• Quadruple systems of the projective special linear group PSL(2,q),q ? 1 (mod 4)
• 3-DESIGNS DERIVED FROM PLANE ALGEBRAIC CURVES
• On 3-designs from \(\mathrm{PGL}(2,q)\)

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