Related papers: On $3$-designs from $PGL(2,q)$

A $t$-fold packing of a projective space $\rm{PG}_n(q)$ is a collection $\mathcal{P}$ of line-spreads such that each line of $\rm{PG}_n(q)$ occurs in precisely $t$ spreads in $\mathcal{P}$. A $t$-fold packing $\mathcal{P}$ is transitive if…

A well known class of objects in combinatorial design theory are {group divisible designs}. Here, we introduce the $q$-analogs of group divisible designs. It turns out that there are interesting connections to scattered subspaces,…

n [D. de Caen, E.R. van Dam. Fissioned triangular schemes via the cross-ratio, {Europ. J. Combin.}, 22 (2001) 297-301], de Caen and van Dam constructed a fission scheme $\FT(q+1)$ of the triangular scheme on $\PG(1,q)$. This fission scheme…

The genus spectrum of a finite group $G$ is the set of all $g\geq 2$ such that $G$ acts faithfully and orientation-preserving on a closed compact orientable surface of genus $g$. This article is an overview of some results relating the…

Let $G$ be the general linear group of the degree $n\geq 2$ over the field $\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$. In this article, we give a description of orbit decomposition of the multiple projective space $G^m/P^m$ under the diagonal…

We study finite groups arising from configurations of pairwise skew lines in $\mathbb{P}^3_K$. To such a configuration ${L}$ one associates a group $G_{L}\subset \mathrm{PGL}_2(K)$ acting on each line, and we investigate which finite…

In this note I give a formula for calculating the number of orbits of irreducible binary forms of degree $n$ over GF$(p)$ under the action of GL$(2,p)$. This formula has applications to the classification of class two groups of exponent $p$…

In this work we formulate the group theoretical description of free fall and projectile motion. We show that the kinematic equations for constant acceleration form a one parameter group acting on a phase space. We define the group elements…

We consider the action of the projective group $PGL(3,\mathbb{R})$ on the $n$-fold first-order jet space of point configurations on the plane. Using the method of moving frames, we construct an explicit complete generating set for the field…

A classification is given of rank 3 group actions which are quasiprimitive but not primitive. There are two infinite families and a finite number of individual imprimitive examples. When combined with earlier work of Bannai, Kantor,…

This paper contains the more significant part of the article with the same title that will appear in the Volume 12 of Journal of Group Theory (2009). In this paper we determine all algebraic transformation groups $G$, defined over an…

For even $q$, a group $G$ isomorphic to $PSL(2,q)$ stabilizes a Baer conic inside a symplectic subquadrangle ${\cal W}(3,q)$ of ${\cal H}(3,q^2)$. In this paper the action of $G$ on points and lines of ${\cal H}(3,q^2)$ is investigated. A…

A $3$-$(v,\{4,6\},1)$ design is a configuration of $v$ points and a collection of $4$- and $6$-element subsets called blocks, that jointly contain every 3-element subset exactly once. Using an exhaustive computer search on $v\leq 28$ points…

A design is $G$-additive with $G$ an abelian group, if its points are in $G$ and each block is zero-sum in $G$. All the few known ``manageable" additive Steiner 2-designs are $\mathrm{EA}(q)$-additive for a suitable $q$, where…

We consider the structure of the plane-line incidence matrix of the projective space $\mathrm{PG}(3,q)$ with respect to the orbits of planes and lines under the stabilizer group of the twisted cubic. Structures of submatrices with…

Let $K$ be an algebraic function field with constant field ${\mathbb F}_q$. Fix a place $\infty$ of $K$ of degree $\delta$ and let $A$ be the ring of elements of $K$ that are integral outside $\infty$. We give an explicit description of the…

We first describe, over a field K of characteristic different from 2, the orbits for the adjoint actions of the Lie groups PGL(2, K) and PSL(2, K) on their Lie algebra sl(2, K). While the former are well known, the latter lead to the…

The fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds are known to be residually finite. Feng Luo conjectured that a stronger statement is true, by only allowing finite groups of the form $PGL(2,R),$ where $R$ is some finite commutative ring with…

A complete classification is given of all inner actions on the Clifford algebra C(1,3) defined by representations of the quantum group GL_q(2,C), q^m\neq 1, which are not reduced to representations of two commuting "q-spinors". As a…

In the spirit of Conway we define a groupoid starting from projective planes of order $q$, where $q$ is odd. The associated group of these groupoids is then investigated.