Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Introduction
- Generalized Steiner systems of type 3-(v, {4,6}, 1)
- Some remarks on D.R. Hughes' construction of M12 and its associated designs
- On k-sets of class [0,1,2,n]2 in PG(r,q)
- Covering graphs and symmetric designs
- Arcs and blocking sets
- Flat embeddings of near 2n-gons
- Codes, caps and linear spaces
- Geometries originating from certain distance-regular graphs
- Transitive automorphism groups of finite quasifields
- On k-sets of type (m,n) in projective planes of square order
- On k-sets of type (m,n) in a Steiner system S(2, l, v)
- Some translation planes of order 81
- A new partial geometry constructed from the Hoffman-Singleton graph
- Locally cotriangular graphs
- Coding theory of designs
- On shears in fixed-point-free affine groups
- On (k,n)-arcs and the falsity of the Lunelli-Sce conjecture
- Cubic surfaces whose points all lie on their 27 lines
- Existence results for translation nets
- Translation planes having PSL(2,w) or SL(3,w) as a collineation group
- Sequenceable groups: a survey
- Polar spaces embedded in a projective space
- On relations among the projective geometry codes
- Partition loops and affine geometries
- Regular cliques in graphs and special 1½ designs
- Bericht über Hecke Algebren und Coxeter Algebren eindlicher Geometrien
- On buildings and locally finite Tits geometries
- Moufang conditions for finite generalized quadrangles
- Embedding geometric lattices in a projective space
- Coverings of certain finite geometries
- On class-regular projective Hjelmslev planes
- On multiplicity-free permutation representations
- On a characterization of the Grassmann manifold representing the lines in a projective space
- Affine subplanes of projective planes
- Point stable designs
- Other talks
- Participants
Cubic surfaces whose points all lie on their 27 lines
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Introduction
- Generalized Steiner systems of type 3-(v, {4,6}, 1)
- Some remarks on D.R. Hughes' construction of M12 and its associated designs
- On k-sets of class [0,1,2,n]2 in PG(r,q)
- Covering graphs and symmetric designs
- Arcs and blocking sets
- Flat embeddings of near 2n-gons
- Codes, caps and linear spaces
- Geometries originating from certain distance-regular graphs
- Transitive automorphism groups of finite quasifields
- On k-sets of type (m,n) in projective planes of square order
- On k-sets of type (m,n) in a Steiner system S(2, l, v)
- Some translation planes of order 81
- A new partial geometry constructed from the Hoffman-Singleton graph
- Locally cotriangular graphs
- Coding theory of designs
- On shears in fixed-point-free affine groups
- On (k,n)-arcs and the falsity of the Lunelli-Sce conjecture
- Cubic surfaces whose points all lie on their 27 lines
- Existence results for translation nets
- Translation planes having PSL(2,w) or SL(3,w) as a collineation group
- Sequenceable groups: a survey
- Polar spaces embedded in a projective space
- On relations among the projective geometry codes
- Partition loops and affine geometries
- Regular cliques in graphs and special 1½ designs
- Bericht über Hecke Algebren und Coxeter Algebren eindlicher Geometrien
- On buildings and locally finite Tits geometries
- Moufang conditions for finite generalized quadrangles
- Embedding geometric lattices in a projective space
- Coverings of certain finite geometries
- On class-regular projective Hjelmslev planes
- On multiplicity-free permutation representations
- On a characterization of the Grassmann manifold representing the lines in a projective space
- Affine subplanes of projective planes
- Point stable designs
- Other talks
- Participants
Summary
Let F be a cubic surface with 27 lines in PG(3,q). Theorem 30.1 in Manin [2] states that, if q > 34, then there exists a point of F on none of its lines. There is, however, sufficient information in [1] to work out the precise list of cubic surfaces with no such point.
When the cubic curves of PG(2,q) are mapped by their coefficients to the points of PG(9,q), then the set of triple lines is mapped to the Del Vezzo surface v29. Successive projections, always from points of themselves, are also called Del Pezzo surfaces by Manin. A cubic surface with 27 lines in PG(3,q) is in this sense a Del Pezzo surface of order three, whose lines are its exceptional curves. In what follows, F is always such a surface. The 27 lines of F lie by threes in 45 tritangent planes, in e of which the three lines are concurrent at an Eckardt point. All the subsequent lemmas come from [1].
LEMMA 1: F exists over all fields except GF(q) with q = 2, 3 or 5.
LEMMA 2: The number of points on F is q2 + 7q + 1.
LEMMA 3: The number of points on the 27 lines of F is 27(q - 4) + e.
LEMMA 4: For q odd, e ≥ 18; for q even, e ≥ 45.
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- Finite Geometries and DesignsProceedings of the Second Isle of Thorns Conference 1980, pp. 169 - 171Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981