Unitals in Projective Planes - Couverture rigide

Barwick, Susan; Ebert, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0387763643 ISBN 13 : 9780387763644

Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2008

Synopsis

This book is a monograph on unitals embedded in ?nite projective planes. Unitals are an interesting structure found in square order projective planes, and numerous research articles constructing and discussing these structures have appeared in print. More importantly, there still are many open pr- lems, and this remains a fruitful area for Ph.D. dissertations. Unitals play an important role in ?nite geometry as well as in related areas of mathematics. For example, unitals play a parallel role to Baer s- planes when considering extreme values for the size of a blocking set in a square order projective plane (see Section 2.3). Moreover, unitals meet the upper bound for the number of absolute points of any polarity in a square order projective plane (see Section 1.5). From an applications point of view, the linear codes arising from unitals have excellent technical properties (see 2 Section 6.4). The automorphism group of the classical unitalH =H(2, q ) is 2-transitive on the points ofH, and so unitals are of interest in group theory. In the ?eld of algebraic geometry over ?nite ?elds, H is a maximal curve that contains the largest number of F -rational points with respect to its genus, 2 q as established by the Hasse-Weil bound.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This clearly written text is the first book on unitals embedded in finite projective planes. It provides a thorough survey of the research literature on embedded unitals. The book is well-structured with excellent diagrams and a comprehensive bibliography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0387763643
• ISBN 13: 9780387763644
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Springer-Verlag GmbH; customerservice@springernature.com; ; Tiergartenstraße 17; Heidelberg; Baden-Württemberg; 69121; Allemagne