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    Dualities and collineations of projective and polar spaces and of related geometries

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    The L₃(4) near octagon

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    In recent work we constructed two new near octagons, one related to the finite simple group and another one as a sub-near-octagon of the former. In the present paper, we give a direct construction of this sub-near-octagon using a split extension of the group . We derive several geometric properties of this near octagon, and determine its full automorphism group. We also prove that the near octagon is closely related to the second subconstituent of the distance-regular graph on 486 vertices discovered by Soicher (Eur J Combin 14:501-505, 1993)

    A geometric approach to Mathon maximal arcs

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    Abstract hyperovals, partial geometries, and transitive hyperovals

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    Includes bibliographical references.2015 Summer.A hyperoval is a (q+2)- arc of a projective plane π, of order q with q even. Let G denote the collineation group of π containing a hyperoval Ω. We say that Ω is transitive if for any pair of points x, y is an element of Ω, there exists a g is an element of G fixing Ω setwise such that xg = y. In1987, Billotti and Korchmaros proved that if 4||G|, then either Ω is the regular hyperoval in PG(2,q) for q=2 or 4 or q = 16 and |G||144. In 2005, Sonnino proved that if |G| = 144, then π is desarguesian and Ω is isomorphic to the Lunelli-Sce hyperoval. For our main result, we show that if G is the collineation group of a projective plane containing a transitivehyperoval with 4 ||G|, then |G| = 144 and Ω is isomorphic to the Lunelli-Sce hyperoval. We also show that if A(X) is an abstract hyperoval of order n ≡ 2(mod 4); then |Aut(A(X))| is odd. If A(X) is an abstract hyperoval of order n such that Aut(A(X)) contains two distinct involutions with |FixX(g)| and |FixX(ƒ)| ≥ 4. Then we show that FixX(g) ≠ FixX(ƒ). We also show that there is no hyperoval of order 12 admitting a group whose order is divisible by 11 or 13, by showing that there is no partial geometry pg(6, 10, 5) admitting a group of order 11 or of order 13. Finally, we were able to show that there is no hyperoval in a projective plane of order 12 with a dihedral subgroup of order 14, by showing that that there is no partial geometry pg(7, 12, 6) admitting a dihedral group of order 14. The latter results are achieved by studying abstract hyperovals and their symmetries

    Ovoids and spreads of finite classical generalized hexagons and applications

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    One intuitively describes a generalized hexagon as a point-line geometry full of ordinary hexagons, but containing no ordinary n-gons for n<6. A generalized hexagon has order (s,t) if every point is on t+1 lines and every line contains s+1 points. The main result of my PhD Thesis is the construction of three new examples of distance-2 ovoids (a set of non-collinear points that is uniquely intersected by any chosen line) in H(3) and H(4), where H(q) belongs to a special class of order (q,q) generalized hexagons. One of these examples has lead to the construction of a new infinite class of two-character sets. These in turn give rise to new strongly regular graphs and new two-weight codes, which is why I dedicate a whole chapter on codes arising from small generalized hexagons. By considering the (0,1)-vector space of characteristic functions within H(q), one obtains a one-to-one correspondence between such a code and some substructure of the hexagon. A regular substructure can be viewed as the eigenvector of a certain (0,1)-matrix and the fact that eigenvectors of distinct eigenvalues have to be orthogonal often yields exact values for the intersection number of the according substructures. In my thesis I reveal some unexpected results to this particular technique. Furthermore I classify all distance-2 and -3 ovoids (a maximal set of points mutually at maximal distance) within H(3). As such we obtain a geometrical interpretation of all maximal subgroups of G2(3), a geometric construction of a GAB, the first sporadic examples of ovoid-spread pairings and a transitive 1-system of Q(6,3). Research on derivations of this 1-system was followed by an investigation of common point reguli of different hexagons on the same Q(6,q), with nice applications as a result. Of these, the most important is the alternative construction of the Hölz design and a subdesign. Furthermore we theoretically prove that the Hölz design on 28 points only contains Hermitian and Ree unitals (previously shown by Tonchev by computer). As these Hölz designs are one-point extensions of generalized quadrangles, we dedicate a final chapter to the characterization of the affine extension of H(2) using a combinatorial property

    The isomorphism problem for linear representations and their graphs

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    In this paper, we study the isomorphism problem for linear representations. A linear representation Tn*(K) of a point set K is a point-line geometry, embedded in a projective space PG(n+1,q), where K is contained in a hyperplane. We put constraints on K which ensure that every automorphism of Tn*(K) is induced by a collineation of the ambient projective space. This allows us to show that, under certain conditions, two linear representations Tn*(K) and Tn*(K') are isomorphic if and only if the point sets K and K' are PGammaL-equivalent. We also deal with the slightly more general problem of isomorphic incidence graphs of linear representations. In the last part of this paper, we give an explicit description of the group of automorphisms of Tn*(K) that are induced by collineations of PG(n+1,q).Comment: 14 page
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