{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q692500","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q692500","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q692500","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-19T01:25:13Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q692500","name":"The doubly-transitive focal-spreads","headline":"The doubly-transitive focal-spreads","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6112875","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q692500","datePublished":"2012-12-06","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q385729"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q171436"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q189241"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1007/S00025-011-0124-Y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S00025-011-0124-Y"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1007/S00025-011-0124-Y"],"comment":"A focal-spread of type \\((t,k)\\) is a partition of the vector space \\(V(k+t,q)\\) by a subspace \\(L\\) of dimension \\(t\\) over \\(\\mathbb{F}_q\\), called the focus, and a partial \\(k\\)-spread of \\(q^t\\) different \\(k\\)-dimensional vector spaces over \\(\\mathbb{F}_q\\), where \\(t>k\\).  The only known focal-spreads arise from a construction of \\textit{A. Beutelspacher} [Arch. Math. 31, 202--208 (1978; Zbl 0377.50006)]: Let \\(V(t+k,q)\\) be the vector space of dimension \\(t+k\\) over \\(\\mathbb{F}_q\\), for \\(t>k\\), and let \\(L\\) be a subspace of dimension \\(t\\). Let \\(V(2t,q)\\) be a vector space of dimension \\(2t\\) containing \\(V(t+k,q)\\), and let \\(S_t\\) be a \\(t\\)-spread containing \\(L\\). Here, it is always possible to let \\(S_t\\) be the Desarguesian \\(t\\)-spread. Let \\(M_t\\) be a component of the \\(t\\)-spread \\(S_t\\), different from \\(L\\). Then \\(M_t \\cap V(t+k,q)\\) is a subspace of \\(V(t+k,q)\\) of dimension \\(k\\), and all these intersections, together with \\(L\\), then lead to a focal-spread with focus \\(L\\). The corresponding focal-spread is called a \\(k\\)-cut of a \\(t\\)-spread.  The main results of this article are as follows.  First of all, the authors prove: If a focal-spread of type \\((t,k)\\) over \\(\\mathbb{F}_q\\), \\(q=p^r\\), \\(p\\) prime, admits a \\(p\\)-group \\(P\\) that is normalized by a group \\(\\langle g \\rangle\\) of order a prime \\(p\\)-primitive divisor of \\(q^t-1\\), then the focal-spread is a \\(k\\)-cut of a Desarguesian \\(t\\)-spread.  This then leads to the following result: Let \\(\\pi\\) be a focal-spread of type \\((t,k)\\) over \\(\\mathbb{F}_q\\), \\(q^t\\neq 64\\), that admits a collineation group \\(G\\) of \\(\\pi\\) in \\(\\Gamma L(t+k,q)\\) that acts doubly-transitively on the partial \\(k\\)-spread, then there exists a Desarguesian affine plane \\(\\Pi\\) of order \\(q^t\\) such that \\(\\pi\\) arises as a \\(k\\)-cut of the spread of \\(\\Pi\\).","citation":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3684278"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4358770"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1246740"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1089611"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1078800"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3076681"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3224193"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q5961459"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3996618"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1051718"}]},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-19T01:25:13Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}