Sets with few intersection numbers from Singer subgroup orbits

DOI10.1006/EUJC.2000.0471MaRDI QIDQ5942866zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jim Coykendall, James Dover

Publication date 27 February 2002

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0f55aec0b9437190fabd2c48800b7bceb3621b73

zbMATH Keywords

\((k,n)\)-arcdesarguesian planeSinger cycle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General block designs in finite geometry (51E05)

Review text

Let \(\pi\) be a projective plane of order \(q\). A set \(S\) of points in \(\pi\) is said to be of type \((a_0,\dots ,a_k)\) if for every line there exists \(i\) such that the line meets \(S\) in \(a_i\) points, and for each \(a_i\), some line meets \(S\) in \(a_i\) points. The numbers \(a_i\) are called intersection numbers of the set. Of particular interest are sets which have few intersection numbers. In the paper under review, the authors investigate certain sets with few intersection numbers, namely Singer subgroup orbits. By a detailed algebraic and geometric analysis they show that the system analyzed in \textit{A. E. Brouwer} [Eur. J. Comb. 1, 39-41 (1980; Zbl 0472.05013)] can actually get three distinct solutions for \(q=p^{2n}\), \(p\) prime and \((q \equiv 1 \pmod 3).\) From a geometric point of view, they introduce a particular incidence structure whose points are complete arcs of \(PG(2,q)\) and whose blocks are classical unitals with inclusion as incidence. This incidence structure turns out to be isomorphic to \(PG(2,\sqrt q)\) and represents the main tool of their investigation.

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