Semiarcs with long secants

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Authors Bence Csajbók

Publication date 4 September 2014

Published in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7204, http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view/v21i1p60

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zbMATH Keywords

blocking setcollineation groupsemioval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial structures in finite projective spaces (51E20) Blocking sets, ovals, (k)-arcs (51E21)

Abstract: In a projective plane $P{i}_q$ of order $q$, a non-empty point set ${calS}_t$ is a $t$-semiarc if the number of tangent lines to ${calS}_t$ at each of its points is $t$. If ${calS}_t$ is a $t$-semiarc in $P{i}_q$, $t<q$, then each line intersects ${calS}_t$ in at most $q+1-t$ points. Dover proved that semiovals (semiarcs with $t=1$) containing $q$ collinear points exist in $P{i}_q$ only if $q<3$. We show that if $t>1$, then $t$-semiarcs with $q+1-t$ collinear points exist only if $tgeqsqrtq-1$. In $mathrmPG(2,q)$ we prove the lower bound $tgeq(q-1)/2$, with equality only if ${calS}_t$ is a blocking set of R'edei type of size $3(q+1)/2$. We call the symmetric difference of two lines, with $t$ further points removed from each line, a $V_t$-configuration. We give conditions ensuring a $t$-semiarc to contain a $V_t$-configuration and give the complete characterization of such $t$-semiarcs in $mathrmPG(2,q)$.

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Summary: In a projective plane \(\Pi_q\) of order \(q\), a non-empty point set \(\mathcal{S}_t\) is a \(t\)-semiarc if the number of tangent lines to \(\mathcal{S}_t\) at each of its points is \(t\). If \(\mathcal{S}_t\) is a \(t\)-semiarc in \(\Pi_q\), \(t<q\), then each line intersects \(\mathcal{S}_t\) in at most \(q+1-t\) points. Dover proved that semiovals (semiarcs with \(t=1\)) containing \(q\) collinear points exist in \(\Pi_q\) only if \(q\leq 3\). We show that if \(t>1\), then \(t\)-semiarcs with \(q+1-t\) collinear points exist only if \(t\geq \sqrt{q-1}\). In \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q)\) we prove the lower bound \(t\geq(q-1)/2\), with equality only if \(\mathcal{S}_t\) is a blocking set of Rédei type of size \(3(q+1)/2\).{ }We call the symmetric difference of two lines, with \(t\) further points removed from each line, a \(V_t\)-configuration. We give conditions ensuring a \(t\)-semiarc to contain a \(V_t\)-configuration and give the complete characterization of such \(t\)-semiarcs in \(\mathrm{PG}(2,q)\).

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