Partial Spreads and Replaceable Nets

Bruen, A.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 23 (1971) no. 3, pp. 381-391

Résumé

A blocking set S in a projective plane Π is a subset of the points of Π such that every line of Π contains at least one point of S and at least one point not in S. In previous papers [5; 6], we have shown that if Π is finite of order n, then n + √n + 1 ≦ |S| ≦ n 2 – √n (see [6, Theorem 3.9]), where |S| stands for the number of points of S. This work is concerned with some applications of the above result to nets and partial spreads, and with some examples of partial spreads which give rise to unimbeddable nets of small deficiency.In the next section we re-prove a well known result of Bruck which states that if N is a replaceable net of order n and degree k then k ≧ √n + 1, and show how this bound can be improved if n = 7, 8, or 11.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1971-039-x

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