Projective planes of order 12 do not have a collineation group of order 4

In this paper, we prove that there are no projective planes of order 12 admitting a collineation group of order 4. This yields that the order of any collineation group of a projective plane of order 12 is 1, 2, or 3.     

A Semifield Plane of Odd Order Admitting an Autotopism Subgroup Isomorphic to <Emphasis Type="Italic">A</Emphasis><Subscript>5</Subscript>

We develop an approach to constructing and classifying semifield projective planes with the use of a spread set. The famous conjecture is discussed on the solvability of the full collineation group of a finite semifield nondesarguesian plane. We construct a matrix representation of a spread set of a semifield plane of odd order admitting an autotopism subgroup isomorphic to the alternating group A₅ and find a series of semifield planes of odd order not admitting A₅.     

The nonexistence of projective planes of order 12 with a collineation group of order 8

In this article, we prove that there does not exist a symmetric transversal design which admits an automorphism group of order 4 acting semiregularly on the point set and the block set. We use an orbit theorem for symmetric transversal designs to prove our result. As a corollary of the result, we prove that there is no projective plane of order 12 admitting a collineation group of order 8. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 16: 411–430, 2008     

Collineations of projective planes of order 10, part I

No projective plane of order 10 has a collineation group of order 9 which fixes a 12-arc, a set of twelve points no three collinear, as a set. This fact, proved in Part I, is used to prove in Part II that the full collineation group of any projective plane of order 10 has order 1, 3, or 5.     

Shear planes

A shear plane is a 2n-dimensional stable plane admitting a quasi-perspective collineation group which is a vector group of the same dimension 2n and fixes no point. We show that all of these planes can be derived from a special kind of partial spreads by a construction analogous to the construction of (punctured) dual translation planes from compact spreads. Finally we give a criterion (and examples) for shear planes which are not isomorphic to an open subplane of a topological projective plane.     

若干单群与射影平面直射群

设G是有限群,H(?)G。如果H≌~2B_2(q)或H≌~2G_2(q)或H≌PSU(3,q),则G不与任何射影平面的点传递直射群同均。本文对以下问题给出了一般方法:证明以某些几乎单群为点传递自同构群的线性空间不是射影平面。     

Two-transitive groups on a hyperbolic unital

A classification given previously of all projective translation planes of order q² that admit a collineation group G admitting a two-transitive orbit of q+1 points is applied to show that the only projective translation planes of order q² admitting a hyperbolic unital acting two-transitively on a secant are the Desarguesian planes and the unital is a Buekenhout hyperbolic unital.     

4-Dimensionale projektive Ebenen mit grosser abelscher Kollineationsgruppe

We show that a 4-dimensional connected abelian group can act in exactly five different ways as a collineation group of a compact 4-dimensional projective plane. Furthermore the complex projective plane is characterized as the only compact 4-dimensional projective plane which admits two different 4-dimensional abelian collineation groups.

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Herrn Professor Dr. Eelmut Karzel zum 60. Geburtstag     

Flat projective planes with 2-dimensional collineation group fixing at least two lines and more than two points

All flat projective planes whose collineation group contains a 2-dimensional subgroup fixing at least two lines and more than two points are classified. Furthermore, all isomorphism types of such planes are determined. This completes the classification of all flat projective planes admitting a 2-dimensional collineation group.     

A defense of the honour of an unjustly neglected little geometry or a combinatorial approach to the projective plane of order five

In this paper, we consider the projective plane of order five from a combinatorial point of view. We shall see many of its properties (such as its uniqueness and existence, the order of the full collineation group and Segre's theorem) by looking at a structure as simple as the complete graph on six vertices.To Professor Dr. G. Pickert on the occasion of his 70th birthday.     

16-Dimensional Smooth Projective Planes with Large Collineation Groups

Smooth projective planes are projective planes defined on smooth manifolds (i.e. the set of points and the set of lines are smooth manifolds) such that the geometric operations of join and intersection are smooth. A systematic study of such planes and of their collineation groups can be found in previous works of the author. We prove in this paper that a 16-dimensional smooth projective plane which admits a collineation group of dimension d 39 is isomorphic to the octonion projective plane P₂ O. For topological compact projective planes this is true if d 41. Note that there are nonclassical topological planes with a collineation group of dimension 40.     

Collineation groups of translation planes admitting hyperbolic Buekenhout or parabolic Buekenhout-Metz unitals

It is shown that for every semifield spread in PG(3,q) and for every parabolic Buekenhout-Metz unital, there is a collineation group of the associated translation plane that acts transitively and regularly on the affine points of the parabolic unital. Conversely, any spread admitting such a group is shown to be a semifield spread. For hyperbolic Buekenhout unitals, various collineation groups of translation planes admitting such unitals and the associated planes are determined.     

Extending Homomorphisms of Dense Projective Subplanes by Continuity

Let Ψ be a dense projective subplane of a topological projective plane Π. We show that a continuous homomorphism a of Ψ is extendable to a continuous homomorphism of Π if and only if there is a line Z of Ψ such that the restriction of α to the Ψ-points of Z is continuously extendable to some mapping defined on all Π-points of Z. In particular, each projective collineation of Ψ is extendable to a projective collineation of Π yielding the well-known result that (z, A)-transitivity of Ψ extends to (z, A)-transitivity of Π.     

Irregular hyperovals inPG(2, 64)

Two irregular hyperovals in the Desarguesian projective planePG(2, 64) of order 64 are constructed. One has a collineation stabiliser of order 60, the other a stabiliser of order 15. It is a lso shown, with the aid of a computer, that there are no more (irregular) hyperova ls inPG(2, 64) stabilised by a collineation of order 5.     

4-dimensional compact projective planes with a 7-dimensional collineation group

The classification of 4-dimensional compact projective planes having a 7-dimensional collineation group is completed. Besides one single shift plane all such planes are either translation planes or dual translation planes.Dedicated to H. R. Salzmann on his 60th birthday     

Four-dimensional compact projective planes with two fixed points

We determine all 4-dimensional compact projective planes with a solvable 6-dimensional collineation group fixing two distinct points, and acting transitively on the affine pencils through the fixed points. These planes form a 2-parameter family, and one exceptional member of this family is the dual of the exceptional translation plane with 8-dimensional collineation group.     

Die Oktavenebene als Translationsebene mit großer Kollineationsgruppe

It is shown that the affine plane over the Cayley numbers is the only 16-dimensional locally compact topological translation plane having a collineation group of dimension at least 41. This (hitherto unpublished) result is one of the ingredients of H. Salzmann's characterizations of the Cayley plane among general compact projective planes by the size of its collineation group.The proof involves various case studies of the possibilities for the structure and size of collineation groups of 16-dimensional locally compact translation planes. At the same time, these case studies are important steps for a classification program aiming at the explicit determination of all such translation planes having a collineation group of dimension at least 38.     

Conics in the hyperbolic plane intrinsic to the collineation group

In the manner of Steiner??s interpretation of conics in the projective plane we consider a conic in a planar incidence geometry to be a pair consisting of a point and a collineation that does not fix that point. We say these loci are intrinsic to the collineation group because their construction does not depend on an imbedding into a larger space. Using an inversive model we classify the intrinsic conics in the hyperbolic plane in terms of invariants of the collineations that afford them and provide metric characterizations for each congruence class. By contrast, classifications that catalogue all projective conics intersecting a specified hyperbolic domain necessarily include curves which cannot be afforded by a hyperbolic collineation in the above sense. The metric properties we derive will distinguish the intrinsic classes in relation to these larger projective categories. Our classification emphasizes a natural duality among congruence classes induced by an involution based on complementary angles of parallelism relative to the focal axis of each conic, which we refer to as split inversion (Definition 5.3).     

Zentrale und axiale Kollineationen in projektiven Hjelmslev-Ebenen

Zusammenfassung Es gibt in projektiven Hjelmslev-Ebenen zentrale (axiale) Kollineationen, die keine Achse (Zentrum) haben. Das Produkt zweier zentraler Kollineationen s und t mit gemeinsamer Achse kann eine axiale Kollineation ohne Zentrum sein oder auch eine axiale Kollineation mit einem Zentrum, daß auf keiner Verbindungsgeraden der Zentren von s und t liegt.

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In ordinary projective planes every central collineation has an axis and every collineation with an axis is central. We prove in this paper, that this proposition doesn't hold in projective Hjelmslev-planes. We construct a projective Hjelmslev-plane and collineations with centers Pand Q on a common axis g such that the product of these collineations has no center but the axis g. In the dual plane we get a central collineation without an axis.

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Herrn R. Artzy zum siebzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet