A projective plane of order 16
โ Scribed by Peter Lorimer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 735 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0097-3165
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We construct by computer all of the hyperovals in the 22 known projective planes of order 16. Our most interesting result is that four of the planes contain no hyperovals, thus providing counterexamples to the old conjecture that every finite projective plane contains an oval.
This paper reports the result of a computer search which show s that there is no oval in a projective plane of order 10. It gives a brief description of the search method as well as a brief survey of other possible configurations in a plane of order 10.
Translation Laguerre planes of order 16 are investigated, and a related search is carried out for translation ovals in the eight translation planes of order 16 and for certain collections of such ovals called 2-pencils. Although in some of these planes there are considerably more translation hyperov