Perfect Baer Subplane Partitions and Three-Dimensional Flag-Transitive Planes

The classification of perfectBaer subplane partitions of PG(2, q²) is equivalentto the classification of 3-dimensional flag-transitive planeswhose translation complements contain a linear cyclic group actingregularly on the line at infinity. Since all known flag-transitiveplanes admit a translation complement containing a linear cyclicsubgroup which either acts regularly on the points of the lineat infinity or has two orbits of equal size on these points,such a classification would be a significant step towards theclassification of all 3-dimensional flag-transitive planes. Usinglinearized polynomials, a parametric enumeration of all perfectBaer subplane partitions for odd q is described.Moreover, a cyclotomic conjecture is given, verified by computerfor odd prime powers q < 200, whose truth would implythat all perfect Baer subplane partitions arise from a constructionof Kantor and hence the corresponding flag-transitive planesare all known.     

Exceptional groups of Lie type and flag-transitive triplanes

A triplane is a ( v, k, 3)-symmetric design. Let G be a subgroup of the full automorphism group of a triplane D. In this paper we prove that if G is flag-transitive and point-primitive, then the socle of G cannot be a simple exceptional group of Lie type.     

Flag-Transitive 2-Designs Arising from Line-Spreads in PG(2n-1,2)

A Singer cycle in GL(n,q) is an element of order q permuting cyclically all the nonzero vectors. Let be a Singer cycle in GL(2n,2). In this note we shall count the number of lines in PG (2n-1,2) whose orbit under the subgroup of index 3 in the Singer group is a spread. The lines constituting such a spread are permuted cyclically by the group ³, hence gives rise to a flag-transitive 2-(2²ⁿ ,4,1) design.     

Flag-Transitive 3-(v,k, 3) Designs and PSL(2, q) Groups

This article is a contribution to the study of the automorphism groups of 3-(v,k,3) designs.Let S =(P,B) be a non-trivial 3-(q+ 1,k,3) design.If a two-dimensional projective linear group PSL(2,q) acts flag-transitively on S,then S is a 3-(q + 1,4,3) or 3-(q + 1,5,3) design.     

Flag-transitive point-primitive 2-（v,k,4） symmetric designs and two dimensional classical groups

Let D be a 2-(v, k, 4) symmetric design and G be a flag-transitive point-primitive automorphism group of D with X ⊴ G ≤ Aut(X) where X ≅ PSL ₂(q). Then D is a 2-(15, 8, 4) symmetric design with X = PSL ₂(9) and X _x = PGL ₂(3) where x is a point of D.     

旗传递5-(v,k,2)设计的分类

本文研究了5-(v,k,2)设计的分类问题.利用典型群PSL(2,q)的子群作用于投影线的轨道定理,证明了旗传递5-(v,k,2)设计的自同构群的基柱不能与PSL(2,3n)同构.从而证明了不存在旗传递的5-(v,k,2)设计.     

交错群与旗传递点本原非对称2-（v，k，3）设计

受旗传递2-(v,k,3)对称设计和非对称2-(v,k,2)设计有关分类结果的启发,本论文继续研究旗传递非对称2-(v,k,3)设计.文章利用置换群的理论和组合设计的数量性质,借助计算机代数软件Gap和Magma,完全分类了自同构群G旗传递点本原,且基柱Soc(G)为交错群An(n≥5)的非对称2-(v,k,3)设计,证明了此类设计只能是唯一的2-(5,3,3)设计,且G=A_5或S_5.     

以$M_{11}$为基柱的旗传递点本原2-设计的完全分类

近年来,很多学者研究了以散在单群作为本原自同构群基柱的旗传递2-设计的一些分类工作.本文在此基础之上,给出了以散在单群$M_{11}$作为基柱的旗传递点本原2-设计的完全分类,得到了14个不同构的非平凡2-设计.     

Suzuki群Sz(q)与斯坦诺5设计

讨论了Suzuki群Sz（q）旗传递作用于斯坦诺5设计上,得到了定理：设D=（X,B,D是非平凡的斯坦诺5设计,D的自同构群G旗传递地作用在D上．若G是几乎单群,则G的基柱不同构于Suzuki群Sz（q）．     

Regulus-free Spreads of PG(3,q)

An old conjecture of Bruck and Bose is that every spread of =PG(3,q) could be obtained by starting with a regular spread and reversing reguli. Although it was quickly realized that this conjecture is false, at least forq even, there still remains a gap in the spaces for which it is known that there are spreads which are regulus-free. In several papers Denniston, Bruen, and Bruen and Hirschfeld constructed spreads which were regulus-free, but none of these dealt with the case whenq is a prime congruent to one modulo three. This paper closes that gap by showing that for any odd prime powerq, spreads ofPG(3,q) yielding nondesarguesian flag-transitive planes are regulus-free. The arguments are interesting in that they are based on elementary linear algebra and the arithmetic of finite fields.Dedicated to Hanfried Lenz on the occasion of his 80th birthdayThis work was partially supported by NSA grant MDA 904-95-H-1013.This work was partially supported by NSA grant MDA 904-94-H-2033.