AbstractThe Kleinewillinghöfer types of Laguerre planes reflect the transitivity properties of certain groups of central automorphisms. Polster and Steinke have shown that some of the conceivable types for flat Laguerre planes cannot exist and given models for most of the other types. The existence of only a few types is still in doubt. One of these is type V.A.1, whose existence we prove here. In order to construct our model, we make systematic use of the restrictions imposed by the group. We conjecture that our example belongs to a one-parameter family of planes all of type V.A.1.
We provide examples of flat Laguerre planes of Kleinewillinghöfer type E, thus completing the classification of flat Laguerre planes with respect to Laguerre translations in B. Polster and G.F. Steinke, Results Maths. (2004). These planes are obtained by a method for constructing a new flat Laguerre plane from three given Laguerre planes devised in B. Polster and G. Steinke, Canad. Math. Bull. (1995) but no examples were given there.
A FLAT LAGUERRE PLANE OF KLEINEWILLINGHÖFER TYPE V
