Finite geometries : proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference / edited by A. Blokhuis ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Blokhuis, A. (Aart)

Conference Name:

Isle of Thorns Conference (4th : 2000 : University of Sussex)

Series:

Developments in mathematics ; v. 3.

Developments in mathematics ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finite geometries--Congresses.

Finite geometries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

Point-line geometries with a generating set that depends on the underlying field / R.J. Blok, A. Pasini 1

On a class of symmetric divisible designs which are almost projective planes / Aart Blokhuis, Dieter Jungnickel, Bernhard Schmidt 27

Generalized elliptic cubic curves, Part 1 / Francis Buekenhout 35

Fixed points and cycles / Peter J. Cameron 49

RWPRI geometries for the alternating group A[subscript 8] / Philippe Cara 61

A characterization of truncated D[subscript n]-buildings as flag-transitive PG.PG*-geometries / I. Cardinali, A. Pasini 99

Group-theoretic characterizations of classical ovoids / A. Cossidente, O.H. King 121

A general framework for subexponential discrete logarithm algorithms in groups of unknown order / Andreas Enge 133

Generalized quadrangles and pencils of quadrics / Dina Ghinelli, Stefan Lowe 147

The Desarguesian plane of order thirteen / M. Giulietti, J.W.P. Hirschfeld, G. Korchmaros 159

Two characterizations of the Hermitian spread in the split Cayley hexagon / Eline Govaert, Hendrik Van Maldeghem 171

Epimorphisms of generalized polygons, Part 2: some existence and non-existence results / Ralf Gramlich, Hendrik Van Maldeghem 177

The packing problem in statistics, coding theory and finite projective spaces: update 2001 / J.W.P. Hirschfeld, L. Storme 201

The geometric approach to linear codes / I.N. Landjev 247

Flocks and locally hermitian 1-systems of Q(6, q) / D. Luyckx, J. A. Thas 257

Diagrams for embeddings of polygons / B. Muhlherr, H. Van Maldeghem 277

The Law-Penttila q-clan geometries / Stanley E. Payne 295

Implications of line-transitivity for designs / Cheryl E. Praeger 305

Exponent bounds / Bernhard Schmidt 319

On symmetries and translation generalized quadrangles / Koen Thas 333

Complete caps in projective space which are disjoint from a subspace of codimension two / David L. Wehlau 347

Talks 365.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0792369947

OCLC:

46882660