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dc.contributor.author | Casse, L. R. A. (Rey) | en |
dc.contributor.author | Quinn, Catherine T. | en |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Discrete Mathematics, 2002; 248(1-3):17-25 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0012-365X | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/3536 | - |
dc.description | Available online 16 March 2002 | en |
dc.description.abstract | In PG(2,q2) let ℓ∞ denote a fixed line, then the Baer subplanes which intersect ℓ∞ in q+1 points are called affine Baer subplanes. Call a Baer subplane of PG(2,q2) non-affine if it intersects ℓ∞ in a unique point. It is shown by Vincenti (Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. Suppl. 2 (1980) 31) and Bose et al. (Utilitas Math. 17 (1980) 65) that non-affine Baer subplanes of PG(2,q2) are represented by certain ruled cubic surfaces in the André/Bruck and Bose representation of PG(2,q2) in PG(4,q) (Math. Z. 60 (1954) 156; J. Algebra 1 (1964) 85; J. Algebra 4 (1966) 117). The André/Bruck and Bose representation of PG(2,q2) involves a regular spread in PG(3,q). For a fixed regular spread View the MathML source, it is known that not all ruled cubic surfaces in PG(4,q) correspond to non-affine Baer subplanes of PG(2,q2) in this manner. In this paper, we prove a characterisation of ruled cubic surfaces in PG(4,q) which represent non-affine Baer subplanes of the Desarguesian plane PG(2,q2). The characterisation relies on the ruled cubic surfaces satisfying a certain geometric condition. This result and the corollaries obtained are then applied to give a geometric proof of the result of Metsch (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, Vol. 245, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997, p. 77) regarding Hermitian unitals; a result which was originally proved in a coordinate setting | en |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Rey Casse and Catherine T. Quinn | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Science BV | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved | en |
dc.subject | Baer subplane ; unital | en |
dc.title | Ruled cubic surfaces in PG(4,q), Baer subplanes of PG(2,q2) and Hermitian curves | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/S0012-365X(01)00182-0 | en |
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