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  • Some Finite Geometry:

    Edge on Heptads

    Part I: Dye on Edge

    "Summary:
    ....we obtain various orbits of partitions of quadrics over GF(2a) by their maximal totally singular subspaces; the corresponding stabilizers in the relevant orthogonal groups are investigated. It is explained how some of these partitions naturally generalize Conwell's heptagons for the Klein quadric in PG(5,2)."

    "Introduction:
    In 1910 Conwell... produced his heptagons in PG(5,2) associated with the Klein quadric K whose points represent the lines of PG(3,2).... Edge... constructed the 8 heptads of complexes in PG(3,2) directly. Both he and Conwell used their 8 objects to establish geometrically the isomorphisms SL(4,2)=A8 and O6(2)=S8 where O6(2) is the group of K...."

    -- "Partitions and Their Stabilizers for Line Complexes and Quadrics," by R.H. Dye, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Volume 114, Number 1, December 1977, pp. 173-194

    Part II: Edge on Heptads

    "The Geometry of the Linear Fractional Group LF(4,2)," by W.L. Edge, Proc. London Math Soc., Volume s3-4, No. 1, 1954, pp. 317-342. See the historical remarks on the first page.

    Note added by Edge in proof:
    "Since this paper was finished I have found one by G. M. Conwell: Annals of Mathematics (2) 11 (1910), 60-76...."

    Some context:

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