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Elation KM-arcs
In this paper, we study KM-arcs in PG(2, q), the Desarguesian projective plane of order q. A KM-arc A of type t is a natural generalisation of a hyperoval: it is a set of q+t points in PG(2, q) such that every line of PG(2, q) meets A in 0, 2 or t points. We study a particular class of KM-arcs, namely, elation KM-arcs. These KM-arcs are highly symmetrical and moreover, many of the known examples are elation KM-arcs. We provide an algebraic framework and show that all elation KM-arcs of type q/4 in PG(2, q) are translation KM-arcs. Using a result of [2], this concludes the classification problem for elation KM-arcs of type q=4. Furthermore, we construct for all q = 2(h), h > 3, an infinite family of elation KM-arcs of type q/8, and for q=2(h), where 4, 6, 7 | h an infinite family of KM-arcs of type q/16. Both families contain new examples of KM-arcs
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Elation KM-Arcs
In this paper, we study KM-arcs in PG(2, q), the Desarguesian projective plane of order q. A KM-arc A
of type t is a natural generalisation of a hyperoval: it is a set of q + t points in PG(2, q) such that every line
of PG(2, q) meets A in 0, 2 or t points.
We study a particular class of KM-arcs, namely, elation KM-arcs. These KM-arcs are highly symmetrical
and moreover, many of the known examples are elation KM-arcs. We provide an algebraic framework and
show that all elation KM-arcs of type q/4 in PG(2, q) are translation KM-arcs. Using a result of [2], this
concludes the classification problem for elation KM-arcs of type q/4.
Furthermore, we construct for all q = 2h
, h > 3, an infinite family of elation KM-arcs of type q/8, and
for q = 2h
, where 4, 6, 7 | h an infinite family of KM-arcs of type q/16. Both families contain new examples
of KM-arcs