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On line-parallelisms of PG(3, q)

Combinatorics 2025-06-23 v1

Abstract

Let PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) denote the three-dimensional projective space over the finite field with qq elements. A line-spread of PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) is a collection S\mathcal{S} of mutually skew lines such that every point of PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) lies on exactly one line of S\mathcal{S}. A parallelism of PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) is a set Π\Pi of mutually skew line-spreads of PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) such that every line of PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) is contained in precisely one line-spread of Π\Pi. For a Desarguesian spread D\mathcal{D} and an elementary abelian group EE of order q2q^2 that stabilizes D\mathcal{D} and one of its lines, let T\mathcal{T} be the class of parallelisms of PG(3,q)\mathrm{PG}(3, q) admitting EE, and comprising D\mathcal{D} and q2+qq^2+q Hall spreads, each of which is obtained by switching one of the q2+qq^2+q reguli of D\mathcal{D} through its EE-fixed line. In this paper, the parallelisms in T\mathcal{T} are characterized geometrically and enumerated. Moreover, it is shown that T\mathcal{T} contains at least Θ(qq1q!)\Theta(q^{q-1} q!) mutually inequivalent parallelisms for qq even, and at least Θ(q2q3)\Theta(q^{2q-3}) mutually inequivalent parallelisms when qq is odd.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16271,
  title  = {On line-parallelisms of PG(3, q)},
  author = {Francesco Pavese and Paolo Santonastaso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16271},
  year   = {2025}
}

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30 pages

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