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Mat. Zametki, 2003 Volume 73, Issue 6, Pages 878–885 (Mi mzm235)

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Ovoids and Bipartite Subgraphs in Generalized Quadrangles

A. A. Makhnev (Jr.)a, A. A. Makhnevb

a Ural State University
b Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: A point-line incidence system is called an $\alpha$-partial geometry of order $(s,t)$ if each line contains $s + 1$ points, each point lies on $t + 1$ lines, and for any point $a$ not lying on a line $L$, there exist precisely $\alpha$ lines passing through $a$ and intersecting $L$ (the notation is $pG_\alpha(s,t)$). If $\alpha = 1$, then such a geometry is called a generalized quadrangle and denoted by $GQ(s,t)$. It is established that if a pseudogeometric graph for a generalized quadrangle $GQ(s,s^2-s)$ contains more than two ovoids, then $s = 2$. It is proved that the point graph of a generalized quadrangle GQ(4,t) contains no K 4,6-subgraphs. Finally, it is shown that if some $\mu$-subgraph of a pseudogeometric graph for a generalized quadrangle $GQ(4,t)$ contains a triangle, then $t\le6$.

UDC: 519.14

Received: 04.02.2000

DOI: 10.4213/mzm235


 English version:
Mathematical Notes, 2003, 73:6, 829–837

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