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Involutions Associated with the Burkhardt Configuration in [4]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. F. Horadam
A. F. Horadam*
Affiliation:
The University of New England
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Horadam (11) has established the existence of a locus L in [8] (projective 8-space) having order 45 and dimension 4, which is invariant under a group of order 51840 X 81 (the Clifford similarity transform group CT). Associated with CT are two other groups, the Clifford collineation group CG of order 81, and the Clifford substitution group CS of order 51840. Furthermore, CS may be regarded as either a subgroup of CT, or a symplectic group of index matrices of size 4. Among the matrices of size 9 which perform the operations of CT, there is a set of 81 involutory, symmetric, orthogonal matrices JW. As collineation matrices in [8], these produce 81 pairs of invariant spaces Σ, Π of dimensions 3 and 4 respectively. These [4]'s give rise to a configuration C invariant under the operations of CT, consisting of 360 points, 1080 lines, 120 Jacobian planes, and 81 [4]'s, and their various inter-relationships.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 11 , 1959 , pp. 18 - 33
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1959

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