Characterization of Buekenhout-Metz unitals
β Scribed by Christiane Lefevre-Percsy
- Book ID
- 112499333
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-889X
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The known examples of embedded unitals (i.e. Hermifian arcs) in PG(2, qZ) are B-unitals, i.e. they can be obtained from ovoids of PG(3, q) by a method due to Buekenhout. B-unitals arising from elliptic quadrics are called BM-unitals. Recently, BM-unitals have been classified and their collineation g
We give a characterization of the Buekenhout-Metz unitals in PG(2, q2), in the cases that q is even or q = 3, in terms of the secant lines through a single point of the unital. With the addition of extra conditions, we obtain further characterizations of Buekenhout-Metz unitals in PG(2, q2), for all
## Abstract An affine 2β(__q__^3^,__q__^2^, __q__β+β1) design is constructed from a BuekenhoutβMetz unital of the affine plane AG(2,__q__^2^), with __q__β>β2. It is also shown that such a design is isomorphic to the pointβplane design of the affine space AG(3,__q__). Β© 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.