The Fundamental Theorem of q-Clan Geometry

S. E. Payne ()
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S. E. Payne: CU-Denver, Deptartment of Mathematics

A chapter in Designs and Finite Geometries, 1996, pp 181-202 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Let q be any prime power, F = GF(q). A q-clan is a set C = {A t : t ∈ F}of q, 2 × 2 matrices over F such that their pairwise differences are all anisotropic, i.e., for distinct $$ s,t \in F,\left( {a,b} \right)\left( {{A_s} - {A_t}} \right)\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} a \\ b \\ \end{array} } \right) = 0 $$ has only the trivial solution a = b = 0. Starting with a q-clan C, there are at least the following geometries associated with C in a canonical way (cf. [18]): a generalized quadrangle GQ(C) with parameters (q 2 , q); a flock F(C) of a quadratic cone in PG(3, q); a line spread S(C) of PG(3, q); a translation plane T(C) of dimension at most 2 over its kernel. Starting with a natural definition of equivalence for q-clans, the Fundamental Theorem of q-clan geometry (F.T.) interprets the equivalence of q-clans C 1 and C 2 as an isomorphism between G(C 1 ) and G(C 2 ), where G(C i ) is any of the geometries (mentioned above) associated with C i . The F.T. was first recognized in its present form in [1], but it was stated there in detail only for q = 2 e , and the proof was claimed to be only a slightly revised version of the proof given in [14] of an important special case of the F.T. However, the proof in [14] starts off by assuming a fairly technical result from [11] where it is embedded in a more general theory.

Keywords: Fundamental Theorem; Prime Power; Generalize Quadrangle; Translation Plane; Collineation Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-1395-3_14

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