International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

The largest size of the arc of degree three in a projective plane of order sixteen

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq

Abstract

An $(n;3)$-arc $ K $ in projective plane $ PG(2,q) $ of size n and degree three is a set of $ n $ points satisfies that every line meets it in less than or equal three points, also it is complete if it is not contained in $ (n+1;3) $-arc. The goals of this paper are to construct the projectively inequivalent $(n;3)  $-arcs in $ PG(2,16) $, determined the largest complete arc in $ PG(2,16) $, the stabilizer group of these arcs and we have identified the group with which its isomorph.

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International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
Volume 13, Issue 1
March 2022
Pages 3897-3916
  • Receive Date: 14 July 2021
  • Revise Date: 02 September 2021
  • Accept Date: 17 October 2021