Almost-Baer subplanes of free projective planes

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Row

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rilla Nichols


10.37236/5717 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan De Beule ◽  
Tamás Héger ◽  
Tamás Szőnyi ◽  
Geertrui Van de Voorde

In this paper, by using properties of Baer subplanes, we describe the construction of a minimal blocking set in the Hall plane of order $q^2$ of size $q^2+2q+2$ admitting $1-$, $2-$, $3-$, $4-$, $(q+1)-$ and $(q+2)-$secants. As a corollary, we obtain the existence of a minimal blocking set of a non-Desarguesian affine plane of order $q^2$ of size at most $4q^2/3+5q/3$, which is considerably smaller than $2q^2-1$, the Jamison bound for the size of a minimal blocking set in an affine Desarguesian plane of order $q^2$.We also consider particular André planes of order $q$, where $q$ is a power of the prime $p$, and give a construction of a small minimal blocking set which admits a secant line not meeting the blocking set in $1$ mod $p$ points. Furthermore, we elaborate on the connection of this problem with the study of value sets of certain polynomials and with the construction of small double blocking sets in Desarguesian projective planes; in both topics we provide some new results.



1972 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judita Cofman




1991 ◽  
Vol 257 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
D. Johnston
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2021 ◽  
Vol 225 (10) ◽  
pp. 106709
Author(s):  
Piotr Pokora ◽  
Halszka Tutaj-Gasińska
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1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Salzmann
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2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Gezek ◽  
Vladimir D. Tonchev ◽  
Tim Wagner

Abstract The resolutions and maximal sets of compatible resolutions of all 2-(120,8,1) designs arising from maximal (120,8)-arcs, and the 2-(52,4,1) designs arising from previously known maximal (52,4)-arcs, as well as some newly discovered maximal (52,4)-arcs in the known projective planes of order 16, are computed. It is shown that each 2-(120,8,1) design associated with a maximal (120,8)-arc is embeddable in a unique way in a projective plane of order 16. This result suggests a possible strengthening of the Bose–Shrikhande theorem about the embeddability of the complement of a hyperoval in a projective plane of even order. The computations of the maximal sets of compatible resolutions of the 2-(52,4,1) designs associated with maximal (52,4)-arcs show that five of the known projective planes of order 16 contain maximal arcs whose associated designs are embeddable in two nonisomorphic planes of order 16.



2008 ◽  
Vol 308 (17) ◽  
pp. 3986-3991 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.L. Monte Carmelo


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