Hyperovals and Fano configurations
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Hyperovals and Fano configurations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0939.51014
DOI: 10.1007/BF01228685
author: James M. McQuillan
published in: Journal of Geometry
publication date: 2000-02-03T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(F\) be any field of characteristic 2. The author determines which quadrangles in a hyperconic of \(PG(2,F)\) have a given line as Fano line and shows that the hyperconics and the translation hyperovals are similar with respect to containing quadrangles with certain Fano lines.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05D99
zbMATH DE Number: 1332745
zbMATH Keywords: hyperovals
zbMATH Keywords: translation hyperovals
zbMATH Keywords: Fano lines
zbMATH Keywords: quadrangles
reviewed by: Dimitri Leemans
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01228685
OpenAlex ID: W2013917668
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1332745