Linear representation of a class of projective planes in a four dimensional projective space

Summary The theory of linear representations of projective planes developed by Bruck and one of the authors (Bose) in two earlier papers [J. Algebra1 (1964), pp. 85–102 and4 (1966), pp. 117–172] can be further extended by generalizing the concept of incidence adopted there. A linear representation is obtained for a class of non-Desarguesian projective planes illustrating this concept of generalized incidence. It is shown that in the finite case, the planes represented by the new construction are derived planes in the sense defined by Ostrom [Trans. Amer. Math Soc.111 (1964), pp. 1–18] and Albert [Boletin Soc. Mat. Mex,11 (1966), pp, 1–13] of the dual of translation planes which can be represented in a 4-space by the Bose-Bruck construction. An analogous interpretation is possible for the infinite case. This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. GP-8624, and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. AFOSR-68-1406. This research was conducted while the author was visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research was also partially supported by C.N.R. Entrata in Redazione il 28 maggio 1970.     

The Tutte group of projective planes

Dress and Wenzel have codified the notion of the Tutte group of a matroid and have determined the Tutte group of projective spaces over skew fields and of finite projective planes. In this note we shall examine the Tutte group of arbitrary projective planes.     

Pathological projective planes: Associate affine planes

In [7] the author showed the existence of projective plane pathological with respect to the collineation groups of its sub and quotient planes. Similar pathologies are obtainable with respect to collineation groups of associated affine planes. (i.e. the affine planes obtained by distinguishing a line as the line at infinity) as expressable in the following theorem.     

Constructively presented projective planes

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Stable periodic projective planes

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