A geometric approach to Mathon maximal arcs

In 1969 Denniston gave a construction of maximal arcs of degree d in Desarguesian projective planes of even order q, for all d dividing q. In 2002 Mathon gave a construction method generalizing the one of Denniston. We will give a new geometric approach to these maximal arcs. This will allow us to count the number of isomorphism classes of Mathon maximal arcs of degree 8 in PG(2,2^h), h prime.Comment: 20 page

Singer quadrangles

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A result on polynomials derived via graph theory

We present an example of a result in graph theory that is used to obtain a result in another branch of mathematics. More precisely, we show that the isomorphism of certain directed graphs implies that some trinomials over finite fields have the same number of roots

Weak isometries of Hamming spaces

Consider any permutation of the elements of a (finite) metric space that preserves a specific distance p. When is such a permutation automatically an isometry of the metric space? In this note we study this problem for the Hamming spaces H(n,q) both from a linear algebraic and combinatorial point of view. We obtain some sufficient conditions for the question to have an affirmative answer, as well as pose some interesting open problems