Topological pseudo-ovals, elation laguerre planes, and elation generalized quadrangles

1994 ◽  
Vol 216 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Löwen
Author(s):  
B. Polster ◽  
G. F. Steinke

AbstractThe classical 2-dimensional Laguerre plane is obtained as the geometry of non-trivial plane sections of a cylinder in R3 with a circle in R2 as base. Points and lines in R3 define subsets of the circle set of this geometry via the affine non-vertical planes that contain them. Furthemore, vertical lines and planes define partitions of the circle set via the points and affine non-vertical lines, respectively, contained in them.We investigate abstract counterparts of such sets of circles and partitions in arbitrary 2-dimensional Laguerre planes. We also prove a number of related results for generalized quadrangles associated with 2-dimensional Laguerre planes.


2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burkard Polster ◽  
Günter F. Steinke
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2011 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEROEN SCHILLEWAERT ◽  
GÜNTER F. STEINKE

AbstractThe Kleinewillinghöfer types of Laguerre planes reflect the transitivity properties of certain groups of central automorphisms. Polster and Steinke have shown that some of the conceivable types for flat Laguerre planes cannot exist and given models for most of the other types. The existence of only a few types is still in doubt. One of these is type V.A.1, whose existence we prove here. In order to construct our model, we make systematic use of the restrictions imposed by the group. We conjecture that our example belongs to a one-parameter family of planes all of type V.A.1.


2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
KOEN STRUYVE ◽  
HENDRIK VAN MALDEGHEM

AbstractIn this paper, we present some geometric characterizations of the Moufang quadrangles of mixed type, i.e., the Moufang quadrangles all the points and lines of which are regular. Roughly, we classify generalized quadrangles with enough (to be made precise) regular points and lines with the property that the dual nets associated to the regular points satisfy the Axiom of Veblen-Young, or a very weak version of the Axiom of Desargues. As an application we obtain a geometric characterization and axiomatization of the generalized inversive planes arising from the Suzuki-Tits ovoids related to a polarity in a mixed quadrangle. In the perfect case this gives rise to a characterization with one axiom less than in a previous result by the second author.


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