Transitive Deficiency One Parallelisms of PG(3, 7)

Svetlana Topalova and Stela Zhelezova ()
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Svetlana Topalova: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Stela Zhelezova: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: Consider the n -dimensional projective space PG ( n , q ) over a finite field with q elements. A spread in PG ( n , q ) is a set of lines which partition the point set. A parallelism is a partition of the set of lines by spreads. A deficiency one parallelism is a partial parallelism with one spread less than the parallelism. A transitive deficiency one parallelism corresponds to a parallelism possessing an automorphism group which fixes one spread and is transitive on the remaining spreads. Such parallelisms have been considered in many papers. As a result, an infinite family of transitive deficiency one parallelisms of PG ( n , q ) has been constructed for odd q , and it has been proved that the deficiency spread of a transitive deficiency one parallelism must be regular, and its automorphism group should contain an elation subgroup of order q 2 . In the present paper we construct parallelisms of PG ( 3 , 7 ) invariant under an elation group of order 49 with some additional properties, and thus we succeed to obtain all (46) transitive deficiency one parallelisms of PG ( 3 , 7 ) . The three parallelisms from the known infinite family are among them. As a by-product, we also construct a much bigger number (55,022) of parallelisms which have the same spread structure, but are not transitive deficiency one.

Keywords: finite projective space; parallelism; automorphism; transitive group; deficiency one (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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