Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 12858
6 votes

Synthetic projective lines

Following up on Matthias Wendt's comment, the language of Moufang sets is indeed a suitable axiomatic approach to (generalizations of) projective lines. Formally speaking, a Moufang set is a set $X$ …
Tom De Medts's user avatar
  • 6,614
9 votes
2 answers
441 views

Embedding $\mathrm{PGL}(n,q^h)$ in $\mathrm{PGL}(nh,q)$

It is not very hard to see that for each prime power $q$ and natural numbers $n,h$, we have an embedding $$\iota \colon \mathrm{GL}(n,q^h) \hookrightarrow \mathrm{GL}(nh, q),$$ obtained by choosing a …
Tom De Medts's user avatar
  • 6,614
3 votes

Moufang identities and Moufang plane

A very accessible book for such connections between geometric and algebraic properties in general, is John Faulkner's "The Role of Nonassociative Algebra in Projective Geometry" (https://bookstore.ams …
Tom De Medts's user avatar
  • 6,614
10 votes
Accepted

Which finite projective planes can have a symmetric incidence matrix?

The key word here is "polarity". A polarity of a projective plane with point set $P$ and line set $L$ is a map $\pi$ from $P \cup L$ to itself mapping points to lines and lines to points, such that $\ …
Tom De Medts's user avatar
  • 6,614