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Automorphisms of (Affine) SL(2,q)-Unitals

Combinatorics 2022-04-20 v2

Abstract

SL(2,q)\operatorname{SL}(2,q)-unitals are unitals of order qq admitting a regular action of SL(2,q)\operatorname{SL}(2,q) on the complement of some block. They can be obtained from affine SL(2,q)\operatorname{SL}(2,q)-unitals via parallelisms. We compute a sharp upper bound for automorphism groups of affine SL(2,q)\operatorname{SL}(2,q)-unitals and show that exactly two parallelisms are fixed by all automorphisms. In SL(2,q)\operatorname{SL}(2,q)-unitals obtained as closures of affine SL(2,q)\operatorname{SL}(2,q)-unitals via those two parallelisms, we show that there is one block fixed under the full automorphism group.

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@article{arxiv.2012.10116,
  title  = {Automorphisms of (Affine) SL(2,q)-Unitals},
  author = {Verena Möhler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10116},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

15 pages; references updated. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.10129