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Isomorphisms of groups related to flocks

Koen Thas (UGent)
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A truly fruitful way to construct finite generalized quadrangles is through the detection of Kantor families in the general 5-dimensional Heisenberg group over some finite field . All these examples are so-called "flock quadrangles". Payne (Geom. Dedic. 32:93-118, 1989) constructed from the Ganley flock quadrangles the new Roman quadrangles, which appeared not to arise from flocks, but still via a Kantor family construction (in some group of the same order as ). The fundamental question then arose as to whether (Payne in Geom. Dedic. 32:93-118, 1989). Eventually the question was solved in Havas et al. (Finite geometries, groups, and computation, pp. 95-102, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2006; Adv. Geom. 26:389-396, 2006). Payne's Roman construction appears to be a special case of a far more general one: each flock quadrangle for which the dual is a translation generalized quadrangle gives rise to another generalized quadrangle which is in general not isomorphic, and which also arises from a Kantor family. Denote the class of such flock quadrangles by . In this paper, we resolve the question of Payne for the complete class . In fact we do more-we show that flock quadrangles are characterized by their groups. Several (sometimes surprising) by-products are described in both odd and even characteristic.
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Flock quadrangle, Elation quadrangle, Automorphism group, Heisenberg group, Characterization, ELATION GENERALIZED QUADRANGLES, QUADRICS, OVOIDS, SETS, PRIME

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Thas, Koen. “Isomorphisms of Groups Related to Flocks.” JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS, vol. 36, no. 1, 2012, pp. 111–21, doi:10.1007/s10801-011-0326-0.
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Thas, K. (2012). Isomorphisms of groups related to flocks. JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS, 36(1), 111–121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-011-0326-0
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Thas, Koen. 2012. “Isomorphisms of Groups Related to Flocks.” JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS 36 (1): 111–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-011-0326-0.
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Thas, Koen. 2012. “Isomorphisms of Groups Related to Flocks.” JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS 36 (1): 111–121. doi:10.1007/s10801-011-0326-0.
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Thas K. Isomorphisms of groups related to flocks. JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS. 2012;36(1):111–21.
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K. Thas, “Isomorphisms of groups related to flocks,” JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 111–121, 2012.
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In this paper, we resolve the question of Payne for the complete class . In fact we do more-we show that flock quadrangles are characterized by their groups. 
Several (sometimes surprising) by-products are described in both odd and even characteristic.}},
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  journal      = {{JOURNAL OF ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  pages        = {{111--121}},
  title        = {{Isomorphisms of groups related to flocks}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-011-0326-0}},
  volume       = {{36}},
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