In this paper it is shown that given a non-degenerate elliptic quadric in the projective space PG(2n -1, q), q odd, then there does not exist a spread of PG(2n -1, q) such that each element of the spread meets the quadric in a maximal totally singular subspace. An immediate consequence is that the c
On Plane Arcs Contained in Cubic Curves
β Scribed by Massimo Giulietti
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 316 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-5797
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β¦ Synopsis
If the group H of the F O -rational points of a non-singular cubic curve has even order, then the coset of a subgroup of H of index two is an arc in the Galois plane of order q. The completeness of such an arc has been proved, except for the case j"0, where j is the j-invariant of the underlying cubic curve. The aim of this paper is to settle the completeness problem for the exceptional case and to provide an alternative proof of the known results.
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Linear systems and their order sequences for an algebraic curve over a finite field are used to obtain upper bounds on the size of a complete arc in a finite projective plane.
## Abstract The sporadic complete 12βarc in PG(2, 13) contains eight points from a conic. In PG(2,__q__) with __q__>13 odd, all known complete __k__βarcs sharing exactly Β½(__q__+3) points with a conic π have size at most Β½(__q__+3)+2, with only two exceptions, both due to Pellegrino, which are comp