Spreads admitting elliptic regulizations

Throughout this paper, the underlying projective space is 3-dimensional and Pappian. A spreadL admits aregulization , if is a collection of reguli contained inL and if each element ofL, except at most two lines, is contained either in exactly one regulus of or in all reguli of . Replacement of each regulus of by its complementary regulus (exceptional lines remain unchanged) produces thecomplementry congruence L ^c of L with respect to . IfL ^c is an elliptic linear congruence of lines, then we call anelliptic regulization. Applying a method due to Thas and Walker we construct topological spreads of PG(3,) which admit one elliptic and no further regulization. For each of these spreads we determine the group of automorphic collineations. Among others we obtain also spreads which are the complete intersection of a general linear complex of lines and of a cubic complex of lines.In conclusion, I would like to thank H. H{upavlicek} (Vienna) for valuable suggestions in the preparation of this article.